Real Christmas trees “greener” than the artificial

According to one scholar, to cut this tree is much safer for the environment than to buy artificial.

“People think it is illogical” – says Clint Springer (Clint Springer), a biologist at the University of Saint Joseph’s in Philadelphia.

Worrying about the disappearance of forests, many people believe that to buy a real tree, it means that exacerbate the problem. However, most trees that are sold before the holiday, did not grow in the forests, and on Christmas tree farms, and for a particular purpose. After cutting plant new trees.

Artificial trees are made from petroleum. For their production, energy use, promoting the development of carbon dioxide.

In addition, more appropriate for the U.S. economy to buy real Christmas trees – all of them are grown on local farms, while the artificial manufactured in China!