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Why artificial Christmas trees are getting more popular than real ones - fingerlakes1.com

Last updated Thursday, December 9, 2021 21:23 ET , Source: NewsService

According to researchers and Google Trends stats, the popularity of artificial Christmas trees increases constantly. It is a tradition for most families to purchase a real Xmas tree and install it in their houses before the festive period. Most families spent time together picking a tree and decorating it. Nevertheless, in the last five years, consumers started buying more synthetic Christmas trees. It’s an interesting trend because real trees are cheaper and have a great smell. However, what reasons can outweigh the benefits that real trees bring? Let’s take a deeper dive into the reasons that force people to choose unnatural Christmas trees over real ones.

Environmental Reason

These days, a lot of people are concerned about environmental problems. There are a lot of global problems that will affect every person on the planet. Deforestation is one of the main ones. Unfortunately, there is no environmentally-friendly material that can replace paper. Therefore, recent research says that people cut down an area of forests similar to a football pitch every second globally. The demand for fresh Xmas trees forces the industry to cut more trees. To save trees that produce oxygen that all people need, many consumers decide to stop purchasing authentic Xmas trees and replace them with synthetic ones.

Fake Xmas tree trees are assembled from plastic that harms the surroundings if it is not recycled properly. However, people use artificial Xmas trees for many years, so they don’t...



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