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Originally Posted by Lucifer
Good Post topic!
our building has a 'no live tree' policy, so we went out for a drive the other day, stopped in the country and found a windfall birch branch on the side of the road. We brought it home, set it up, and have started to decorate it. Total cost = $0!!!
Personally, I love our 'Charlie Brown' tree. We are Charlie Brown kind of people.
I shake my head at the people who are supposedly living a 'green' lifestyle, recycling their eyeballs out, but support an industry which cuts down a perfectly good, oxygen producing, live tree, so they can stick it in their living room for 2 weeks after which they toss it out on the curb to be turned into landfill. |
In defense of those people... the trees were planted and grown specifically for this purpose, and if it weren't such a big tradition, all those trees most likely would not have existed. It's not like they go out into the forest and start cutting down trees... Christmas trees are grown in a farm like setting. Planted, grown, cut down and sold, and the process starts again. Mother nature aids in the growth, but these trees were not planted by the wind or birds, someones hands stuck them in the ground or pot, and they simply wouldn't have been there if not for this silly tradition. So I beg to differ on that last point you made.
P.S. When we were kids, my dad cut the tree up and burnt it in the fire place. What I think should be worried about more than all the trees going to the landfill, that will actually benefit it with natural processes that help break down garbage, is all the wasted wrapping paper and cardboard boxes that have no other place to end up but in the landfill, and being coated with plastic a lot of the time, take a lot longer to decompose than a tree.