Literally - the David Suzuki Foundation says you should buy a real Christmas tree over an artificial one.
Justin Smallbridge, who researched the issue for the foundation, said it's better for the environment since - for the most part - they are grown and sold locally, produce oxygen, are fully recyclable, and, once cut, are replaced with at least two more seedlings.
According to Statistics Canada, real Christmas tree sales were worth $73.9 million in 2005. About 2.4 million trees were exported to places as far away as Ireland and Thailand. Up to six million trees are grown in Canada each year.
But not everyone wants to get real. According again to StatsCan, $36.6 million was spent importing artificial trees from China in 2005.
Full article from the Vancouver Province >>
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