Why are artificial Christmas trees better than real ones?
* Are fake trees better for the environment? As mentioned before, most artificial trees are manufactured in China and contain PVC (polyvinyl chloride). In fact, artifical Christmas Trees were recently added to the Center for Health, Environment & Justice’s list of household products containing PVC. According to the Children’s Health Environmental Coalition, the manufacture of PVC creates and disperses dioxins, which include the most toxic man-made chemical known. Released into air or water, dioxins enter the food chain, where they accumulate in fatty tissues of animals and humans, a potential risk for causing cancer, damaging immune functions and impairing children’s development. This issue is especially concerning due to China’s weak enforcement of environmental regulations. Delta Farm Press recently addressed China’s environmental crisis in this article. * Are fake trees really fireproof? Overloaded electrical outlets and faulty wires are the most common causes of holiday fires in re
Since many years ago, people have this habit of bringing a pine tree in side their homes for the winter holidays, decorate it with lights and other ornaments and celebrate together with their family. Christmas is that time of year when they have the chance to spend some nice moments together, share gifts and of course, eat and drink a lot, then set New Year resolutions of losing weight. A few years ago, artificial Christmas trees were not so popular, as people preferred to just cut out a tree from the forest. The Christmas trees industry soon turned out to be quite big, so lots of trees got cut each year. Unfortunately, not all of them were sold, so every Christmas, there’s a huge load of trees that serve no purpose, but are just killed and get dried in warehouses. The global warming warnings and the fear that we might destroy the Earth’s balance with our foolish actions such as polluting the waters and the air, destroying the forests or excessive hunting, made some of us to become mor
