A STUDY OF VISUAL POLLUTION AND ITS EFFECT ON MENTAL HEALTH

When we drive or go for a walk what we see is the visual environment. The natural environment of the earth is beautiful and most import it is healthy and pleasant for all the species including us. All the factors that causes harm make it unpleasant or try to influence this natural environment can be called pollution. Pollution has various forms and types such as air, noise, and water, visual. Every living thing on this planet such as plants, insects, birds, animals, humans is affected by visual pollution. Here we are discussing the visual pollution and its effects on human mental health. Visual pollution is an aesthetic issue and refers to the impacts of pollution that impair one's ability to enjoy a view. Visual pollutions harm the visual area of human beings such as eyes, visual memory by making the environment unnatural or negative. Visual pollution has increased the road accidents rate in India. It distracts the human mind in a way that it can harm the mental health. Visual pollution includes billboards, open storage of trash, space debris, telephone towers, electric wires, buildings and automobiles, overcrowding of an area. Visual pollution is everything which is not natural and manmade irregular formations which we look in the natural environment.