I’m concerned about our Artificial Christmas tree poisoning the household?
Most of the artificial Christmas trees on the market seem to be imported from China; there have been alot of recent concerns about the amount of lead in the plastic of the trees. Lead is used as a PVC stabilizer. Studies have shown that a significant amount of lead dust settles beneath the tree, especially as the tree ages.
I just purchased one and now I am concerned. If you air out the tree will that help?
Someone said the following:
I’ve put up my artificial Christmas tree for the past 30 years, not counting the 20 years I lived at parents’ house with their artificial tree. I think that this is one of the top 10 things that I really don’t need to worry about right now.
However I am not certain of this, the issue is probably not with the trees from 20-30 years ago, would those have been manufactured in China or in the USA? I’m not sure China was the manufacturing powerhouse back then that it is now.
We really want to buy one of these artificial Christmas trees, so I would love your feedback ASAP.
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Easy solution:
Just buy a real tree.
I am not concerned. I don’t imagine the percentage of lead in the dust is that great. I suppose if you put it outside and let the wind blow on it would help. Airing it out as such won’t help, as the lead won’t evaporate in the air. (and dust settles).
I usually put up a village.
I don’t think that the lead in the dust would be a problem for you, but you might keep the cat away.
I still have a plastic green tree, and do use it some, but it may be so old that it doesn’t have lead in it. Most of us grew up around lead paint and came out OK from that.
I got a foil tree…it is cool! (and color wheel)
My family has used them for years & we’ve never had any concerns..
Honestly you shouldn’t even be worrying about that
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I really think many of these trees ARE toxic and people should be very careful. Those Chinese manufacturers are not careful with their process.