Christmas trees ethical or not?

No worries about Xmas trees, they are grown for that purpose. Did though two years ago submit to buying a plastic one. Just felt paying £40/60 was too much then for a real one and they are going up every year. Figured the plastic one will do for 10 years so not single use. Also real ines do need transportation from ground to home and then again for recycling. All adds up.
I do miss the real pine smell though

They are a crop like any other. Small saplings will be planted in their place, and incidentally fast growing trees like these use up a lot of CO2.
And after Christmas so many are recycled into something useful.
So no, I don't think they are at all unethical.

I’m not worried about Christmas trees either - I understand that many of them are recycled for biomass fuel in the New Year. I do agree, though, with Minimoon about new housing estates where you don’t see a tree in any of the landscaping. There is one going up bordering where we live. Two hundred houses and no room for trees.

They can be recycled for compost if they aren’t rooted to be planted again. My sister always has a real tree and the scouts take it away for 5 pounds to a garden centre where they use the composted trees for growing.

Conifers grown as Christmas trees are a crop, they are grown specifically as trees to be cut.
It takes about 3-4 years to germinate and grow a tree large enough to be planted out, and about 10-15 years before it's ready to be cut as a Christmas tree.
They are not grown as carbon capture trees.

I'm not worried about Christmas trees. It's the lack of trees in New build housing estates that annoys me.
Are there any guidelines for building firms about planting trees?

I've mentioned on another thread that we are renting this year. It goes back to be grown on and then we can have it again next year!

It is due to be delivered today - I'll let you k ow how it goes!

Good question. I suppose any that are cut down or dug up will be replaced so that there are more for the future, but it will take a while before they grow big enough to capture much CO2