Many uninformed environmentalists have been trying to persuade people that it is a great shame cutting down young Christmas trees and it would be far better if we all had artificial plastic trees.

This is a terrible travesty of the truth. Christmas trees are grown in plantations and are grown far to close together to grow any larger than a Christmas tree. These plantations then act as nature reserves to a wide variety of wild life and birds.

There are some 40 million Christmas trees growing in the U.K. and each tree absorbs no less than 27 lbs. of Carbon Dioxide each year and converts this to Carbon and Oxygen. Therefore real Christmas trees convert nearly 5000,000 tons of Carbon Dioxide in to Carbon and Oxygen each year.

On the other hand plastic Christmas Trees are made from by products of liquid fossil fuels. It takes a lot of energy resources to make them. They are using up the world's resources of fossil fuels. Nasty gasses are released while theyare being manufactured. They contribute nothing to the atmosphere once they have been produced. They are not bio-degradable and if burned they produce a combination of noxious gasses.