most artificial trees are manufactured in China and contain PVC (polyvinyl chloride). In fact, artifical Christmas Trees were recently added to the Center for Health, Environment & Justice's list of household products containing PVC.
According to the Children's Health Environmental Coalition, the manufacture of PVC creates and disperses dioxins, which include the most toxic man-made chemical known. Released into air or water, dioxins enter the food chain, where they accumulate in fatty tissues of animals and humans, a potential risk for causing cancer, damaging immune functions and impairing children's development.
yeah we have always had a real tree and probably always will. hooray!
Our family is little and broken, but still good.
I have one that is several years old.
If it weren't for artificial trees we wouldn't have any tree at all because I am highly allergic to evergreens.
i only do real trees and we cut them down at the farm ourself! I want my children to grow up knowing every year we go to the tree farm and they get to pick out the tree we have. And they smell oh sooooo goood!!!!!
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The reverse argument to this would be that the risk of a fire is less with a fake tree. Once real trees get all dried up and people forget to turn the lights off they catch fire. We see more Christmas tree fires then pvc poisoning. In fact I have never seen pvc poisoning.
either way i have no choice either a fake tree or no tree and i wont do that
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- rayzensun
on Nov. 25, 2009 at 1:49 PM