Saving the Christmas tree

Preparations underway: Workers at Holiday Tree Farms loading freshly harvested Christmas trees onto a truck at the Beaver Creek shipping yard in Philomath, Oregon. The Christmas tree harvest is underway at Holiday Tree Farms, the biggest grower of holiday trees in the United States, as workers harvest and ship an estimated one million trees ahead of the Christmas holiday. — AFP

MILLENNIALS have earned a reputation for loving consumer products that are local and artisanal. So why are they are buying so many plastic Christmas trees?

That’s the question irking Tim O’Connor, the executive director of the Christmas Tree Promotion Board in Littleton, Colorado.