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All our ratings now contain a Tax Conduct column, to help show how likely a company is to be engaged in tax avoidance.
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Colin Birch with a light-hearted guide to trying, and sometimes failing, to be ethical. This week Colin looks into the world of car insurance.
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Amazon has launched a new eco badge on its website, which it claims will help “you discover and shop for more sustainable products.” Yet, the ‘Climate Pledge Friendly’ badge has been awarded to everything from single-use batteries to disposable wipes.
So is this another greenwashing exercise from Amazon?
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Following a joint investigation by Ethical Consumer and The Observer, the British Retail Consortium, representing UK supermarkets, has called on the Spanish Government to launch an inquiry into conditions for migrant workers in Almeria.
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Anna Clayton speaks to Heather Masoud of Zaytoun about their upcoming session at Ethical Consumer Week: Join the olive harvest in Palestine.
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More and more products are branded with claims like ‘sustainably sourced’ and ‘fairly traded’.
Julie Hunter, Chair of the Consumer and Public Interest Network at BSI, talks about the role of voluntary standards in navigating these claims, as more and more of us buy online, and about the importance of Consumers in shaping these standards.
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Climate expert and author of How Bad are Bananas and There’s no Planet B, Mike Berners-Lee spoke to us about what a sustainable future could look like and the action needed to get there.
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We are delighted that the Co-operative Bank is again supporting our annual event, Ethical Consumer Week 2020.
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A group of MEPs has written to Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and chief executive, expressing concern that the company might be spying on politicians and targeting workers who are seeking to organise.
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Independent review of Boohoo supply chains finds that company directors knew of problems long before they were reported in the press
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As the carbon crisis intensifies, growing numbers of companies are now starting to label their products with their carbon footprint, says Simon Birch.
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Our Beyond Consumerism page seeks out ideas big and small, for rethinking economic systems or reducing reliance on corporations and money. This time we hear from herbalist Jesper Launder about autumn foraging.
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Amazon announced at the beginning of September that its key UK business paid £14.46million in corporation tax in 2019, just a 3% increase since 2018, despite its pre-tax profits growing by more than 35% during the same period.
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Campaigner and blogger, Mayisha Begum on Peacocks and the #PayUp Campaign.
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Anna Clayton speaks to Chris Warburton Brown at the Permaculture Association about his upcoming session at Ethical Consumer Week: The right recipe for a low carbon diet.
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We speak to Aja Barber, a writer and fashion consultant with expertise in race, intersectional feminism and sustainable fashion, and a strong believer in holding corporations and organisations to account. We talk to her about fast fashion, the impact of Covid and more….
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Over the last few months, we have been reporting on the allegations of illegally low wages, poor working conditions and furlough fraud in Leicester garment factories, those largely supplying online fast fashion brand Boohoo.
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In recent weeks, Oatly has faced widespread boycott calls, after it was announced that the company had accepted a $200 million investment from Blackstone.
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Tom Bryson tells us more about the new Facebook boycott campaign.
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The latest updates on Amazon. The global giant forces sellers to pay its Digital Services Tax and is accused of firing whistleblowers.