Visual pollution refers to impacts that impair one's ability to enjoy a vista and includes billboards, trash, buildings, and other forms that create negative changes to the environment. It disturbs people visually and adds clutter. Billboards specifically are alleged to be distracting for drivers and promote overconsumption, while also clearing trees and intruding on landscapes per complaints from groups like Scenic America. Advertising is said to shape social behaviors and contribute negatively to culture by promoting products as solutions to incompleteness.

2.  Visual pollution is
an aesthetic issue
and refers to the
impacts of
pollution that
impair one's ability
to enjoy a vista or
view.

3.  Advertising is a
mirror and shaper
of public outlook,
social behaviors
and standards.

4.  Visual pollution
disturbs the visual
areas of people by
creating negative
changes in the natural
environment.
Billboards, open
storage of trash, space
debris, telephone
towers, electric wires,
buildings and
automobiles are forms
of visual pollution

5.  Vandalism, in the form
of graffiti is defined
as street markings,
offensive and
inappropriate
messages made
without the owner’s
consent. Graffiti adds
to visual clutter in
neighborhoods as it
makes a disturbance of
view, and the writing
is often a bad
influence to those of
younger age groups.

6.  Billboards are another
example of excessive
advertising. This form
of visual pollution has
been alleged as a
distraction for drivers,
corrupting public taste,
boosting the infinite
need of consumption
and cluttering the land

7.  Many groups such as
Scenic America have
complained that
billboards on highways
cause excessive clearing
of trees and intrude on
the surrounding
landscape, with
billboards' bright colors,
lights and large fonts
making it difficult to
focus on anything else,
making them a form of
visual pollution.

8.  Billboards and
advertising
contribute
negatively to the
mental climate of a
culture by
promoting products
as providing feelings
of completeness,
wellness and
popularity to
motivate purchase.