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As an ethical business owner, do you incorporate circular aspects into your business? Are you even quite sure what the circular economy is and why it's important?
If the answer is no to either of these, don't worry, there's no judgement here!
Small business owner Lucy Todd introduces the key principles of the circular economy and tips on how you…
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Lucy Todd of My Little Green Wardrobe explores three unexpected ethical challenges she overcame when starting her ethical business.
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Suma, a Best Buy Label, chat with Ethical Consumer about who they are, making sustainable and ethical business decisions, and where they see sustainable food in the future.
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Green and sustainable businesses often have additional hurdles to overcome, or ethical decisions to make, when starting up and during their journey.
In this article Lucy Todd outlines seven things which would have been helpful to know when she was setting up her sustainable small business.
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Women with experience of detention are calling for a boycott of facilities management company Mitie, which props up the UK’s immigration detention centres
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A tiny union has pulled off a spectacular victory against one of the world’s biggest companies, reports Simon Birch.
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In October 2021, US private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice won a £7billion auction to acquire Morrisons supermarket.
The buyout has come under fire for likely tax avoidance. So what could the buyout mean for the supermarket chain’s ethics?
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Ethical Consumer has calculated that, in 2021, up to half a billion pounds could have been lost to the UK exchequer from the corporation tax avoidance of just one company, Amazon.
We explore how this has happened, and what the money could have funded instead.
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Can ethical businesses always act like ethical shoppers when it comes to Amazon? In his latest Inside View article, Simon Birch unpicks this complex issue.
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Specsavers aims to provide excellent eye and hearing care to their customers. But how much does the company care about ethical issues such as the environment, people, and animals?
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Here we provide an up-to-date overview of UK ethical markets using data from our 2022 Ethical Markets Report.
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In October 2020 it was announced that Walmart had sold Asda, putting it back under British ownership for the first time in 21 years. It was bought by the Issa brothers and private equity company TDR Capital.
Asda CEO Roger Burnley said the move reflected the company’s “proud northern roots” - but is there much to be proud of when it comes to Asda’s…
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Nicola Round from Adfree Cities explains the cost of corporate advertising and how we can tackle it in our communities.
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Over 15 companies have already withdrawn advertising from the divisive GB News.
Colin Baines - Non-Executive Director of Stop Funding Hate, Investment Engagement Manager at Friends Provident Foundation, and former Ethics Adviser and Campaigns Manager at the Co-op Bank and Group - explains how ethical advertising has become a mainstream corporate…
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Helen Dewdney, The Complaining Cow consumer champion, writes a guest post on ethics, customer service and complaint handling.
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Boycotts are a popular form of consumer action, with people able to use their wallet to avoid specific brands and companies, or to avoid particular ingredients, products or countries.
We recently asked our readers who or what they were boycotting. Here are the results.
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Amazon has long been infamous for its poor working conditions and denial of union rights. Christy Hoffman, General Secretary of UNI Global Union and Sharon Graham Unite Executive Officer, explain Amazon’s aggressive union-busting tactics and the campaign in the UK to give workers their right to a seat at the table.
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Now that Brexit's finally happened, what's the impact on the UK's ever growing ethical consumer market?
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Amazon has been ordered to pay over $61.7million in compensation to drivers for withholding tips, following charges by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
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The latest annual report on ethical shopping provides good news for ethics including Fairtrade says Simon Birch