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 Tree Benefits
Remove Pollutants and Generate Oxygen
Trees resuscitate our world through photosynthesis, and capture pollutants and other detrimental by-products of our mechanized lifestyle in exchange for oxygen. This barter alone highlights the special role of trees in urban life, where population and commercial density generate an excess of harmful elements into the air we breathe.
- The leaves, bark, trunk and root systems of trees act as natural filters to sequester carbon, and inhibit production of CO2 (the primary greenhouse gas).
- Trees also retain the two major components of acid rain and ozone pollution, nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide.
- Just 100 mature trees can capture five tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere annually.
- A healthy, mature ash tree produces about 260 pounds of net oxygen each year.
- That’s roughly 2/3 the average oxygen consumption per typical adult.
- A single acre of trees can generate enough oxygen daily for 18 people.
- Trees efficiently intercept particle matter, such as pollen, dust, smoke and ash.
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