By Lindsay Bell-Wheeler

Noise. We all live with it. Everyday. All day long.

For most of us, the first sound we hear in the morning is the alarm clock.

It’s annoying. And loud. And it just keeps getting louder.

Garbage and delivery trucks. Non-stop construction and/or road works.

Traffic congestion – horns honking, motorcycles revving. Sirens blaring from emergency vehicles. Public transit vehicles near destroying our innocent little eardrums.

Noise pollution is so common you almost ‘don’t hear it’ anymore in your day-to-day lives. Except you do, really. And it’s been proven time and again the effects of noise pollution go above and beyond hearing loss. (more…)