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You know what’s better than the smell of a fresh balsam fir? Not having to keep a whole-ass tree alive, indoors, for a month. So, this year, I did it. I got a fake tree.

But if you can manage to keep that artificial tree going for 20 years or so, and if you'd have to drive a long way to buy a real tree, artificial becomes the more environmentally friendly choice.

Above all else, this is the main benefit of a fake tree compared to a real one, but there are other reasons why it might be the best thing for your future holidays, too. It’s Safer ...

Montreal consulting firm Ellipsos found that a fake tree would need to be reused for at least 20 years to earn a greener halo than a fresh-cut fir, pine or spruce. Over a typical six-year life ...

But Canadians have seen through all that. Our judgment lapsed briefly in 2013, when artificial-tree sales in this country eclipsed those of the real thing, but reason has prevailed.

A 2008 report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found that artificial Christmas trees made of PVC degrade under normal conditions, and when an artificial tree gets to be nine years old ...

The best way to recycle a tree is by turning it into mulch or compost by getting it chipped. But whatever you do, never leave a real tree in a landfill, Pearson warned. "If it goes in a landfill ...

In summer, I buy icy silver things. When winter approaches, I buy the item pictured here. It is a grey concrete-looking vase with a half-dozen fake lemon tree branches (for $103).

But with fake trees, you buy it once then every year, you take it out.” Judging by the selection of fake trees at department store, or the number of people heading to tree farms, there’s ...

The American Christmas Tree Association (yes, there really is such a thing!) have looked into this. They say that, on average, artificial trees are used for 10 years.