Christmas Trees: which is better, real or artificial?

(From Irish Independent)

A real treeGrowing Christmas trees helps the environment. While they are growing, the trees take harmful carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, from the atmosphere.Coillte, the Irish Forestry Board, grows Christmas trees in sustainable forests all over Ireland.What is a sustainable forest? It means that for every tree they grow and cut down, they plant another one.This way the forest is sustained, or kept going. So the environment is not harmed.Real trees can be recycled. This means that after Christmas they can be shredded and the wood chippings can be used in gardens. That is what happens when you bring the tree to a recycling centre.You can also …