Visual pollution refers to unwanted sights that impair one's ability to enjoy a vista. It disturbs people visually and psychologically by creating unnatural changes to the environment. Sources of visual pollution include billboards, electric wires, garbage, dumping areas, broken vehicles, abandoned buildings, vandalism, squatter areas, traffic, sidewalk vendors, holes in streets, and pornographic images. Effects include distraction, eye fatigue, loss of identity, and short-temperedness. Prevention methods involve limiting posters and signs, reducing graffiti, and protecting urban elements from banners.

2. What Is Visual Pollution ?
Visual Pollution
 Is an aesthetic (relating to art or beauty) issue and refers to the impacts of pollution that impair
one's ability to enjoy a vista or view.
 Visual Pollution is the presence of any unwanted sight that can ruin the aesthetic appeal of a
specified area.
 Disturbs the visual areas of people by creating negative changes in the natural environment.
 Visual Pollution is defined as the whole of irregular formations, which are mostly found in natural
and built environments.
 This is actually an artificial form of pollution that makes one uncomfortable to look at.

3. Sources of visual pollution
Billboards

4. Sources of visual pollution
Electric Wires

5. Sources of visual pollution
Garbage in Streets

6. Sources of visual pollution
Dumping Areas

7. Sources of visual pollution
Broken Vehicles/Automobile

8. Sources of visual pollution
Abandoned Buildings

9. Sources of visual pollution
Vandalism

10. Sources of visual pollution
Squatter Area

11. Sources of visual pollution
Traffic

12. Sources of visual pollution
Sidewalk Vendors

13. Sources of visual pollution
Holes on Streets

14. Sources of visual pollution
Pornographic Pictures/Videos

15. Effects of Visual Pollution
Distraction Eye fatigue
Decreases in opinion diversityLoss of identity
Short-tempered

16. Prevention of Visual Pollution
Don’t put many posters or paintings in one place all together.
Reduce to drawings of graffitis.
Protect all the elements of urban furniture (poles, trees), which should not
hang banners or notices attached in accordance with existing rules.
Protect trees and natural resource elements of the city, which should not
hang banners or notices attached to any class.