According
to different sources, it is mentioned that every year about 2 billion
people celebrate Christmas.
And it might be that most of them will bring in the home either spruce, fir, wreaths or branches of live trees, plastic or other materials.
However, lot of people might not think that any such activity also requires the use of resources (oil, labor) or use of environmental resources, not to mention the general environmental impacts.
If you take the tree from forest – probably it has not good effect for forest - in addition to the disturbance of the natural environment, it also entails costs and, to some extent, pollution of the environment - it requires the transport (fossil fuels), the taken tree needs replacement (labor, fossil fuel, paperwork) later, tree needs to be disposed (fuel), etc.
Also, if you buy plant from nursery - the owner of the nursery gets a income that should cover his expenses and new investments, but each Christmas tree will need many years to use land that could be used for something else - as well as labor costs, fossil fuel costs, watering costs, etc.
Later, there will be additional shipping costs and disposal costs.
The use of artificial trees and wreaths might be even more hostile to the environment - every product requires a certain amount of material, a certain amount of clean water, the use of colorants, labor costs and transport costs.
In addition, artificial things can also be dangerous for human health (material, colorants, volatile particles, etc.).
Damages and costs may seem small and insignificant to us, but if we multiply one small damage by a modest estimate of as much as one billion, then we get a huge amount of resources spent on Christmas trees on a global scale every year.
Of course, celebrating or not celebrating Christmas is a personal decision of every person, but perhaps it can be done with less environmental damage?
Source: Urbandendro
http://ravelreiljan.blogspot.com/
And it might be that most of them will bring in the home either spruce, fir, wreaths or branches of live trees, plastic or other materials.
However, lot of people might not think that any such activity also requires the use of resources (oil, labor) or use of environmental resources, not to mention the general environmental impacts.
If you take the tree from forest – probably it has not good effect for forest - in addition to the disturbance of the natural environment, it also entails costs and, to some extent, pollution of the environment - it requires the transport (fossil fuels), the taken tree needs replacement (labor, fossil fuel, paperwork) later, tree needs to be disposed (fuel), etc.
Also, if you buy plant from nursery - the owner of the nursery gets a income that should cover his expenses and new investments, but each Christmas tree will need many years to use land that could be used for something else - as well as labor costs, fossil fuel costs, watering costs, etc.
Later, there will be additional shipping costs and disposal costs.
The use of artificial trees and wreaths might be even more hostile to the environment - every product requires a certain amount of material, a certain amount of clean water, the use of colorants, labor costs and transport costs.
In addition, artificial things can also be dangerous for human health (material, colorants, volatile particles, etc.).
Damages and costs may seem small and insignificant to us, but if we multiply one small damage by a modest estimate of as much as one billion, then we get a huge amount of resources spent on Christmas trees on a global scale every year.
Of course, celebrating or not celebrating Christmas is a personal decision of every person, but perhaps it can be done with less environmental damage?
Source: Urbandendro
http://ravelreiljan.blogspot.com/
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