On the Subject of Faux Fir
While everyone is searching for LED lights and tacky yard bubbles, I have been tormented over the perpetual holiday tree dilemma: real or faux? Laura Fiffick, our city’s Director of Environmental Quality, tells me that faux is environmentally correct. Too much energy, pesticides and carbon off gassing involved in growing, cutting and transporting real trees to market. Guess I’ll have to break down and buy a fake to be real (green). Who knew?
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Loyd,
So the debate rages on. I have an artificial tree (insurance won’t allow me a real one due to fire concerns), yet just the other day I read that the plastic, etc. on an artificial tree make it worse than real. I wish I remember where I read this info. Still, just goes to show..get two experts and they will always disagree.
Yeah, I know! However, I think that if you buy an artifical tree and really use it for many years, the impact may be less than killing a real one every year…