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I wonder which has the smaller carbon footprint ? (Xmas trees)
Considering how many Xmas trees used each year, a manufactured, packaged and shipped artificial tree or a naturally grown Xmas tree - should we buy natural or man made for a lower 'go green' Xmas ?
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Simple get one with roots.
It should be illegal to sell them without, maybe even "renting" them to people for Christmas.
Yes I know some would kill them but then they would lose their deposit and still leave us where we were.
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Better idea would be to abolish the foreign idea of trees, an even better idea would be to abolish Christmas altogether.
Bah Humbug!
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Just imagine how many trees we could have if every Christmas Tree was a live one and hopefully a more useful species.
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Not had a real one for decades. So this year Ill be adding no carbon footprint with my Christmas tree.
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Originally Posted by Ceam
Not had a real one for decades. So this year Ill be adding no carbon footprint with my Christmas tree.
Likewise, we'll be unfolding and erecting the synthetic tree again. Same with Halloween when, rather than a tree, a plakky pumpkin is deployed which lights up courtesy of a (rechargeable) bike-light discreetly concealed within.
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Originally Posted by The PNP
Likewise, we'll be unfolding and erecting the synthetic tree again. Same with Halloween when, rather than a tree, a plakky pumpkin is deployed which lights up courtesy of a (rechargeable) bike-light discreetly concealed within.
What a good idea it saves people telling you were to stick it when not in a "plastic" ?? pumpkin.
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Originally Posted by The PNP
Likewise, we'll be unfolding and erecting the synthetic tree again. Same with Halloween when, rather than a tree, a plakky pumpkin is deployed which lights up courtesy of a (rechargeable) bike-light discreetly concealed within.
So a placcy pumkin rahter than a real one that can be eaten (the pulp scooped out) then the 'lantern' mashed up and put out for various wlidlife to eat!
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Our first Christmas together I insisted on a real tree and my (now) husband was still swearing profusely at pine needles emerging from the carpet in July. So he insisted we buy an artificial one the following year. It cost the princely sum of £49.99 back when that was a lot of money and this year it will see its 27th Christmas.
On a side note, a couple of years ago I was in Lady Green Garden Centre where a lady was buying a whole trolley full of Christmas decorations, all beautifully colour co-ordinated. I can't remember what the bill came to but it must have been hundreds. The sales assistant remarked that she'd bought a lot of decorations and the lady replied "I always buy new ones every year, never use the same ones twice!". I hope she gives the "old" ones to charity but I fear they end up in landfill. How wasteful.
I'm only happy when it rains....
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Is it worse buying plastic trees from China?
The bauble industry could collapse without tree buyers.
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Originally Posted by Darkside
On a side note, a couple of years ago I was in Lady Green Garden Centre where a lady was buying a whole trolley full of Christmas decorations, all beautifully colour co-ordinated. I can't remember what the bill came to but it must have been hundreds. The sales assistant remarked that she'd bought a lot of decorations and the lady replied "I always buy new ones every year, never use the same ones twice!". I hope she gives the "old" ones to charity but I fear they end up in landfill. How wasteful.
Agree....She obviously had never heard the saying: 'waste not, want not'!
Fact is, manufacturing baubles, tinsel etc, will inevitably generate by-products/chemical waste. It will also be responsible for adding CO2 to the atmosphere, and just like everything else that ends up in the bin, will either wind up in landfill - or even the sea.
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Originally Posted by Darkside
Our first Christmas together I insisted on a real tree and my (now) husband was still swearing profusely at pine needles emerging from the carpet in July. So he insisted we buy an artificial one the following year. It cost the princely sum of £49.99 back when that was a lot of money and this year it will see its 27th Christmas.
On a side note, a couple of years ago I was in Lady Green Garden Centre where a lady was buying a whole trolley full of Christmas decorations, all beautifully colour co-ordinated. I can't remember what the bill came to but it must have been hundreds. The sales assistant remarked that she'd bought a lot of decorations and the lady replied "I always buy new ones every year, never use the same ones twice!". I hope she gives the "old" ones to charity but I fear they end up in landfill. How wasteful.
Such waste.
I am waiting for technology to beam a tree baubles chocolates on the wall.
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Underfloor heating. Never real
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Originally Posted by *concerned*
Considering how many Xmas trees used each year, a manufactured, packaged and shipped artificial tree or a naturally grown Xmas tree - should we buy natural or man made for a lower 'go green' Xmas ?
Like the one they have been putting up in the centre of town for instance? Come back natural Christmas tree, all is forgiven.
Then again - they took down the one in Birkdale Village. When that one was first installed it was such a sorry specimen, locals wondered if it would survive Christmas. It did, just, but later in the year it had to be cremated, May God Rest its Soul.
However, the carbon foot print for artificial trees greatly exceeds that of natural trees.
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Originally Posted by *concerned*
Considering how many Xmas trees used each year, a manufactured, packaged and shipped artificial tree or a naturally grown Xmas tree - should we buy natural or man made for a lower 'go green' Xmas ?
There can't be a lower foot print than the Birkdale tree.
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