There are a lot of different types of pollution and believe it or not, noise is one of them. Noise pollution has been around for a long time even if we're not aware of it. The word "noise" is derived form the Latin word "nausea", meaning seasickness. Here I hope to cover a few points on noise and hopefully state a few things which had been done to overcome it.
Noise comes from all over the place. Noise from road traffic, jet planes, jet skies, garbage trucks, construction equipment, manufacturing processes, lawn mowers, leaf blowers, and boom boxes, to name a few, are among the audible litter that are routinely broadcasted in the air. The air which second-hand noise is emitted and on which it travels is a "commons", a public good. It belongs to everyone, whether we like it or not.…
