Health Matters(Noise Pollution)

Greetings everyone, I am much delighted to share a post about noise pollution. My environment is so affected with noise pollution and it's making it so unfit for human mental health and survival. Before now the use of machines like motorcycles, cars, grinding machines and others were not introduced which helped curved noise pollution eventhough it was so hectic for them to carry on certain activities faster. To say almost everything comes with a disadvantages mostly man made equipments.
Simply, Noise pollution can be defined as the period or state which excessive noise from either humans or engines affects the environment. Here in my environment noise pollution is really affecting the peace of the environment making it unsafe for some human progress or mental health.

What are the some common noise pollution in your area

There are so many activities that makes it unbearable for people around my locality to stay in. Noises from populated places just like the main plaza in my community, the main plaza is one of the most populated area in my town. There you will find so many people of different tribes hawking, selling and doing other legal and illegal activities around. The noise from the gathering makes it unbearable for people staying around the area.

Noise from Generators, cars and other machines:
Due to unstable light in my area, so many people uses their generators as a source of light in their homes, workplace, amd and other places that needs light. Almost all the homes uses generators here in my place and keep it on till midnight. It affects so many people who finds it so hard to rest in a noisy environment.

Noises from animals
My area is one that loves rearing livestock which include goats, sheeps and ram. Noises from these livestocks disturbs the peace of the environment polluting the environment with unpleasant sounds.

Unpleasant sound from our mini factory
My town is blessed with resources including palm fruits which can be used to produce oil and other valuable outputs. To process the oil you have to take it to the mill for production. The noise from engines in the mill is really affecting and unpleasant to wear staying around .

How do you think noise pollution impacts on our health and wellbeing in a long run

Mental health: Excessive unpleasant noise can be very dangerous to humans mental health affecting their thoughts which can lead to depression and tiredness. It can cause migraine because at the moment the brain is being disturbed with loud noises.

Great disadvantages to the ear Unpleasant noises can affects the ear drum making you have issues in your ear. Excessive noises can make you deaf so it's always advise able to stay off noises. Most people that uses earphones, earbuds and other sound transmitting devices do develop issues of not hearing well.

It can disturb someone's sleep

Unpleasant noise can be so disturbing causing discomfort to people that wants to rest or sleep. People who wants to rest needs a cool environment to rest. Noise pollution does a great disadvantage to the ear damaging and causing nuisance.

Effective ways to reduce noise pollution in urban areas

There are so many ways we can reduce noise pollution mainly in the urban areas. You can tackle an event by knowing the true cause of the problem. From my points i stated that the use of generators and other engines that causes loud noises are the main factor that causes noise pollution. So the government should work with the power holding company to supply steady light to all urban areas. The introduction of solar is very cool too because light is directly gotten from the sun which can be used for so many things at home and business places. In general it's known to be sound proof equipments and machines.

Educating the society about noise pollution: so many people don't know the effects of noise pollution so they need proper knowledge about the effects to one's mental health. I can truly say noise pollution affects one's mental health, during sick days at home especially when it's fever loud noises hits my skull differently. So it's always preferable to stay in areas that's not that lousy during such period.

If you could design a quiet zone in your community, what features would it have?

Having a quiet zone is very necessary in our live, where you will feel relaxed, chilled and okay. I already had plans of sitting a quiet zone for myself surrounded with trees and write-ups around the place maybe placing some art work on the wall can really make me cool and calm in the environment. So planting enough trees and placing art work around will give me a cool quiet zone.

How do you think technology can help us combat noise pollution in the future

Technology is driving so high and hard nowadays, I know we have lots of technology that can cancel noise, reduce noise and lots more. Technology is key aspect that will help monitor and control noise pollution in the future because placing much policies on people not to talk is not that acceptable. Humans needs to communicate and air out some words which might be loud most times. So technology will play a better role in the future to curb with noise pollution.

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