An In-Depth Look at Sound Pollution

Sound pollution is a very real problem in society today. It affects our everyday life and our behavior, and can be caused by the smallest things. Sound pollution, by definition, is any intrusive sound or imbalance in soundscape brought upon by another sound (source 1). This doesn't necissarily mean that it is a particularly loud or harsh sound, as the characteristics of an imbalancing sound can be pretty much anything. When people's environment is sonically polluted, the trend is that their behavior and level of concentration changes. …