The amount of misinformation/disinformation in comments under this post is staggering and ridiculous. These were *never* meant to be a *replacement* for trees, nor were they designed to replace trees.

These are supposed to help with the air pollution in places in cities where there is no room for trees and/or where trees can't grow to appropriate sizes exactly due to air pollution.

For a community that markets itself as full of critical thinkers there sure is plenty of parroting of same platitudes made by people who are too lazy to do a quick search and educate themselves about the *thing* they write about...