| Noise pollution (or environmental noise in technical | | | | neighbour you could make as much noise as you |
| areas and venues) is termed as displeasing or | | | | wanted and it wasn't a problem. Nowadays basically |
| annoying human or mechanically caused sound that is | | | | we have people living on top of each other, |
| or can be described as alien to the environment. I | | | | underneath each other and in fact all over the place |
| guess to most of us the major source of this pollution | | | | and more importantly interfacing with modern day |
| would come from transportation systems, as anyone | | | | technologies in ways that hitherto would have thought |
| who has tried to hire a car from the main AVIS car | | | | to have been impossible. As such the use of the |
| rental depot at Heathrow Airport would testify to. | | | | acoustic foam and the noise dampening systems are |
| Based on the perimeter road at Heathrow sometimes | | | | essential. If we take for example the situation in many |
| the noise of landing 747's can make it a little difficult | | | | cities nowadays when we have whole plethoras of |
| explaining to the attendant what problems you may | | | | modern communication links such as underground |
| have had (or not) with the car you are returning. | | | | railway systems, over ground railway systems, |
| However before we all start to assume that noise | | | | modern two-way flyovers and in fact transports |
| pollution is purely something that occurs in major cities | | | | communications and residential accommodation right |
| let us consider the effect of noise pollution in rural | | | | next to each other. Without adequate noise reduction |
| communities. Now noise from recreational vehicles has | | | | systems in place and incorporated within the structure |
| become quite a major issue with the rural communities. | | | | of the residential and work accommodation than pretty |
| Quad Bikes or All Terrain Vehicles (ATV's) have | | | | quickly life within these new cities would become |
| become a serious problem in the countryside. They | | | | pretty intolerable. As we have said before, enter stage |
| have increased massively in popularity and are joining | | | | left acoustic foam. Without these new technologies |
| the more traditional two wheeled bikes as the vehicle | | | | providing the noise insulation, the quality of life in most |
| of choice for off road riding. The bottom line is that we | | | | built up areas would be appalling. At this point it |
| live in a noisy world and by that I mean not just the | | | | becomes pretty obvious to all concerned quite what a |
| sound of cars and traffic etc but the way we live our | | | | debt we owe to noise reduction systems and |
| lives and perhaps more importantly where we are | | | | soundproofing in general that quite often mere words |
| now living and the density of the accommodation we | | | | on no longer enough. Having lived in the centre of |
| provide ourselves. In the old days when basically all | | | | London and also spent time on the northwest coast of |
| you had to worry about was the old cottage in the | | | | County Donegal in Ireland, when it comes to noise |
| middle of the field 6 miles away from the nearest | | | | pollution I know which one I prefer. |