Consider a GREEN alternative…

In the name of tradition, many people still chose to desecrate the Earth and chop down a live tree for a mere two weeks of display, then throw the decomposing tree in the garbage which is destructive, wasteful, and highly unfriendly to the environment because they are such a profound source of organic waste. People justify it by saying it came from a tree farm that produces oxygen, however, even though most Christmas trees are farmed like an agricultural products, they use tremendous amounts of pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers. After about a week their needles often dry out and make a mess before they are discarded in the trash which takes up space in our limited landfills.

Fake Trees are even worse…

“But we use our fake tree year-after-year, isn’t that being green?”

Most fake trees, made from non renewable petroleum also eventually wind up in landfills and are clogging mother earth with PVC (polyvinyl chloride), which is being banned by many medical associations and considered poison by environmentalists. That’s why you’ll see a label on faux Christmas trees cautioning you to avoid inhaling or eating any bits of lead dust that may fall from the “branches.” Fake trees cannot be recycled. When they are disposed of in a sanitary landfill, they will not disintegrate, but will remain there forever, taking up increasingly scarce landfill space. When a fake tree catches fire, it puts dangerous toxic fumes into the air. Fake trees are manufactured mainly outside of the United States and often by companies in China that do not observe high environmental standards.