How to prevent noise pollution?

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Below are a few things people and governments can do to make our communities and living laces quieter:
 
Construction of soundproof rooms for noisy machines in industrial and manufacturing installations must be encouraged. This is also important for residential building—noisy machines should be installed far from sleeping and living rooms, like in a basement or garage.
 
Use of horns with jarring sounds, motorbikes with damaged exhaust pipes, noisy trucks to be banned.
 
Noise producing industries, airports, bus and transport terminals and railway stations to sighted far from where living places.
 
Community law enforcers should check the misuse of loudspeakers, worshipers, outdoor parties and discos, as well as public announcements systems.
 
Community laws must silence zones near schools / colleges, hospitals etc.
 
Vegetation (trees) along roads and in residential areas is a good way to reduce noise pollution as they absorb sound.
 
 
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 Trees do help to check noise pollution, in the following ways.

a. Trees planted in rows act as noise barrier that reduce the intensity of the sound waves by absorbing them.

b. Trees scatter the sound waves and decrease its intensity and thus prevent noise pollution

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 Technology to mitigate or remove noise can be applied in intelligent way to reduce noise pollution.

There are a variety of strategies for mitigating roadway noise including: use of noise barriers, limitation of vehicle speeds, alteration of roadway surface texture, limitation of heavy vehicles, use of traffic controls that smooth vehicle flow to reduce braking and acceleration, and tire design.

We can control noise pollution in the following ways:1)Education and awareness about the consequences of noise pollution in massive scale though media.2) Residential area, hospitals, school, etc should be constructed far away from city area.3) The old automobiles should be replaced with new ones.4) Declaration of no horn zone in residential, hospital and school areas.5) Plantation of tree in public places.There are various other ways to control noise pollution beside these points.

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