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Nowadays Christmas trees are specifically planted for this goal. No wild trees are cut down for this purpose anymore. If everyone should get a plastic tree there wouldn't be a need for real trees anymore and more green would disappear. So instead of live Christmas trees being bad for the environment they are in fact good.

The alternative is the plastic tree. Easy, sturdy, clean and relatively cheap. But they have one very big disadvantage: when they are thrown away they create a big pile of rubbish that can only go to landfill. There's nothing natural about them and burning them would be even worse than dumping. Maybe you could use the argument that these trees last forever, so that in fact they create hardly any rubbish. But let's get real: nowadays we replace loads of things only because we want to replace them. We buy new clothes when we still have a full wardrobe with things we have hardly worn, we buy new shoes when we have already 50 pairs, we buy new CD's while having 300 on the shelf and with Christmas we spend an awful lot of money for more useless things. So many people will also buy a new plastic tree because the old one is too small, too green, not the right shape or they just want something different this year.

So if you want to be environmentally friendly, then buy a real tree. Nice smell (that doesn't need to come from a spray can)and if you buy one with the roots on it you can even put it into your garden and use it again next year. Then the tree can also last forever and it's much nicer and more environmentally friendly than any plastic tree can ever be.

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