Having no tree? Or having a cut fresh tree.?
Please consider what trees offer to the environment vs recycling or burning, energy used to grow and harvest and deliver trees, etc...
Thanks!
2007-11-30 06:31:44 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Botany
In urban areas.
Some Xmas tree farmers lease the vacant land under large power lines.
Maybe these trees will soak up the stray electomagnetic particles thus protecting young children and pets in the surrounding neighborhood and schools from developmental defects? LOL
After xmas, a homeowner can take the tree to the local land fill to send it through a chipper.
Can be used as top mulch, smells nice too.
Who says that an xmas tree has to be a pine tree?
How bout a coconut tree (as in the Corona commercials)?
A live potted orange tree?
2007-12-01 14:56:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Christmas trees that are sold on the market have been grown for that specific reason. Having one won't affect the environment at all. If you go and cut your own, you are usually cutting down some sort of true fir at a young age. This can actually help the environment because of fire suppression. If the environment were truely natural, there would be more fire and fewer of these younger firs. The young firs can choke out space for other trees that would have grown there naturally. So by cutting down a Christmas tree, you may be helping the environment by mimicing what would have happened had we not suppressed fire.
2007-11-30 08:16:30 · answer #2 · answered by admode 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not having a tree at all seems to be the best option. That way you don't cut down trees, therefore helping the ecosystem, and you don't add yet another plastic tree to the landfills and contribute to the growing waste problems.
Unless you have a deep spiritual reason for having a tree, why do it? Because you had one as a child? And what went with it...the adults complaining that it had to go up/come down, fighting with the siblings about who gets to put their ornament where, the cat knocking it over for the 4th time, or the dog peeing on it and soaking the presents?
2007-11-30 06:41:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Christmas trees are grown on farms for the purpose of making a Christmas tree when they are mature. You do not kill wild trees by buying fresh ones. Our town recycles our fresh trees after Christmas by dumping them in the lake for fish habitat.
2007-11-30 09:54:58 · answer #4 · answered by Frosty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get a pretend one mine is 22 years old so whatever damage it has done being made isnt over with cos its still alive and well and looks lovely
2007-11-30 06:39:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋