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Rent A Christmas Tree, Urges The Ideal Home Show At Christmas

Rent A Christmas Tree

First Posted: 23/10/11 11:53 Updated: 22/12/11 10:12   PA

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People are being given the chance to "rent" their Christmas trees under a scheme that aims to reduce the number of cut trees which are simply thrown away.

The hire scheme provides people with a pruned and potted Christmas tree for the festive period, before it is collected in the new year and replanted to be rented out the following Christmas.

Once the tree grows too big for the home it will be planted out in sites including schools and nursing homes, where it will absorb a tonne of carbon, according to the business behind the scheme, the Little Tree Company.

Figures suggest some six million real Christmas trees are dumped after the festive season each year, only 10% of which are recycled for composting and wood chipping with the rest ending up in landfill.

The tree rental business is being backed by the Ideal Home Show at Christmas next month, where people will be able to reserve their own trees from one of three different species.

Lee Newton, managing director of the Ideal Home Show at Christmas, said: "It is always a bit heartbreaking to see bare bristled Christmas trees dumped and discarded along the streets every January, so we are proud to be able to offer our visitors an alternative way of purchasing and recycling their Christmas trees this year."

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People are being given the chance to "rent" their Christmas trees under a scheme that aims to reduce the number of cut trees which are simply thrown away. The hire scheme provides people with a pru...
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billywms
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21:32 on 27/10/2011
Why not!--Less trees getting chopped down,which helps the environment & i imagine it would be cheaper--YES!
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Vanessa1129
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18:22 on 25/10/2011
*cue the crikets*


@provides people with a pruned and potted Christmas tree for the festive period, before it is collected in the new year and replanted to be rented out the following Christmas.
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20:28 on 24/10/2011
I don't think I've ever seen anyone use a real tree for Christmas.
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Sunwyn Ravenwood
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08:08 on 24/10/2011
Sounds like a good idea. Wouldn't work here though. In Honolulu they ship cut trees in shipping containers. No one would send live ones or take them back, way too expensive. I find it hilarious that people go to the expense of buying these cut trees so they'll have an old-fashioned Christmas. If I was going to get a tree I'd get a Norfolk Island Pine and keep it on the lanai the rest of the year.
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European1919
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06:28 on 24/10/2011
Excellent idea. Wonder how it will go down with all those holier-than-thou christians.
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01:21 on 25/10/2011
I take offense that they are even called christmas trees.
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European1919
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07:20 on 27/10/2011
YAY! Let's hear it for the yule log ;-)))
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LiveTheSheenDream
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01:34 on 24/10/2011
Sounds like a winner - can I rent presents for my kids too?
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sdgrrl
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19:13 on 23/10/2011
Definitely a Christmas tree person- sounds sensible.
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Digital Deviant
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15:52 on 23/10/2011
Interesting idea, but will it be prohibitively expensive for mere mortals?
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MolliBlum
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17:42 on 23/10/2011
Don't see how it would be prohibitively expensive. It makes sense.
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05:02 on 24/10/2011
Well, you've got to limit the tree roots and let it grow to a given size (say 6 ft, that's a big, heavy rootball), then deliver it (how many will be refused?), then get it back alive (think about the care a bonsai takes; it's roughly the same thing), replant, and repeat.  Plus you need big trucks, folks ordering the wrong height/size, equipment to move a 100lb rootball (that's minimum).  Plus a decent pot with a large water well (to prevent drying out, and that requires special soil as well.) 

That's a big cost for prep, delivery, return; and many will be dead when returned (and that means security deposits as well.)
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iLdoRight
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11:26 on 23/10/2011
Morals for sale or rent, two for just fifty cents, What no takers? The evergreen tree massacre goes on, because people don't like Christianity as much as the old Yule festival or something like it. Lets just all have fun and tell God to Buzz Off? No, What then? Straighten up and fly right? OK? One can always hope.
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Sunwyn Ravenwood
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08:05 on 24/10/2011
What a lot of drivel! You don't seem to have any idea of what you are talking about. Have you ever considered learning to write comprehensible English prose?
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iLdoRight
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04:19 on 25/10/2011
I thought the purpose of words was to convey thoughts and ideas. I felt your reply was not an effort to offer a counter opinion to my thoughts, but rather to bully me into not doing such a good job of making a bunch good points with just a few words. In my opinion one of the worst things a person can do with their ability to communicate, (just short of promoting immorality of any sort) is to try to inflict some sort of inhibition into the mind of any person who is trying to elevate moral thinking and communicating these ideas to others.
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11:18 on 23/10/2011
Seems to me to be a very sensible and GREEN idea, but I fear the cost may be too much for the average person.
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MolliBlum
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17:40 on 23/10/2011
I don't see how it would be prohibitively expensive. Admittedly, there is an element of fun in picking out your Christmas tree at the local market and dragging it home through the snow... but what then? Even my eco-aware kids have warned me they want NONE of this unsustainable nonsense this year. And no -- I have been firmly told that an artificial tree is not an alternative option. So maybe this is a chance for me to indulge in a little nostalgia after all without ruining the planet (and to avoid being given a hard time by the generation about to inherit it)
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