KEEPING IT REAL

The Environmental Benefits of Choosing A Real Christmas Tree Studies show that one acre of 8-12 year old Christmas Trees produce nearly 1/2 ton of new bio-mass each year. This removes nearly 500 pounds of carbon (CO2) from the atmosphere. This freshens the air with about 1,000 pounds of oxygen.

Consider this example: In 1996, 17,000 acres of traditional Christmas Trees were grown in New York State. They removed at least 2,125 tons of carbon & released approximately 5,740 tons of oxygen. That is a huge benefit from just one agricultural crop, and a good reason to use a farm-grown real live Christmas Tree each year!

OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS:

• Growing Christmas trees provide a habitat for wildlife.
• Christmas Trees remove dust and pollen from the air.
• Artificial trees will last for six years in your home, centuries in a landfill.
• Christmas Trees can be recycled.
• When chipped, the real tree can be burned as fuel, used as mulch, or composted, thus being used as a renewable resource of energy, stabilizing the soil to prevent erosion, or producing new soil & nutrients.
• Christmas Trees & limbs are used to provide fish habitat in ponds and used on beaches to control erosion.
• 2-3 seedlings are planted for every harvested Christmas Tree.
• 1 Acre of Christmas Trees provides the daily oxygen requirements of 18 people.
• Young Christmas Trees produce more oxygen than older Christmas Trees, thus cutting of older trees is encouraged.