Christmas Trees

Sliced Bread

BBC

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Which Christmas tree is better for the environment - real or fake?

Everyone loves the smell of a freshly cut pine or spruce but the vast majority of them go to landfill. So would a plastic tree be better?

Listener Eleanor wants to have a more sustainable Christmas and has some great questions. Is there a better way to dispose of your real tree? How about a pot-grown tree you could use again the next year? And she's even heard about the possibility of renting a Christmas tree - the same one, year after year! Is that a thing?

In this frankly festive episode I attempt to get to the root of the problem (sorry!) by speaking to an ecological expert and a journalist who's attempted to rent the whole of Christmas.

Presenter: Greg Foot Producer: Simon Hoban

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, podcast fan.
0:03.0	Consider this your invite to the UK's biggest podcasting party.
0:06.7	We're heading to Sheffield from the 4th to the 6th of July
0:09.0	for the BBC Sounds Fringe at the Crossed Wires Festival.
0:12.8	We'll be joined by some of the biggest names in podcasting,
0:15.3	including Sarah Cox, Charlie Hedges, Russell Kane,
0:18.4	and some bloke called Greg James doing his radio four show called Rewinder.
0:23.2	You can watch live shows of your favourite podcasts,
0:25.3	and the best part is free.
0:28.0	To book your free tickets,
0:29.3	go to crossedwires.orgive, forward slash fringe.
0:34.1	BBC Sounds, music, Radio, podcasts.
0:48.7	Hello, I'm Greg Foote and welcome to the show that investigates your suggested wonder products to find out if they are indeed the best thing since sliced bread or marketing BS.
0:55.8	Over the past few years, I have looked into over 70 fads, trends and wonder products claiming to make you happier, healthier,
1:02.0	or greener, from vapes to vacuum cleaners, perfumes to cycle helmets. And today, in this very
1:08.7	festive episode of Slice Bread, I'm going to tackle something that I wonder
1:12.2	about each and every year.
1:14.3	I am finally going to find out the facts for Slice Bread listener, Eleanor Berry, in Pembrokeshire.
1:22.2	Hi, Greg.
1:23.2	I wondered whether you could look into Christmas trees for me.
1:26.1	Which is better for the environment,
1:32.0	plastic or real, and do the pot-grown trees ever make it to the next year? Thank you.
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