Christmas Trees
Submitted by Jo on Tue, 04/03/2008 - 10:08.
We buy around 5.5 million Christmas trees each year. These trees are grown specifically for the purpose, and help take CO2 out of the atmosphere, which is clearly a good thing, depending on what you do with the tree after you’ve finished with it. Burning the tree just puts the CO2 back again.
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buy a tree with roots, so you can plant it in the garden and use it year after year
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take your tree to your council recycling centre – many councils have a scheme to turn trees into woodchips
Take care your tree is from a plantation that has taken care to look after the natural habitat, and not used excessive fertilisers and chemicals – make sure they are FSC certified.
If you buy an artificial tree, look after it and it will last many, many years.
