The phrase "aesthetic pollution" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe visual or sensory elements that detract from the overall beauty or harmony of an environment or design.
Example: "The bright neon signs in the historic district contribute to a sense of aesthetic pollution that clashes with the area's traditional architecture."
Alternatives: "visual clutter" or "design degradation".
Aesthetic pollution, such as a discarded shopping trolley, is, on paper at least, no one's problem.
The use of plastic covers for protecting cultivation in wide rural areas sets remarkable technical problems connected with the effects that large extensions of agricultural land covered with continuous cladding material may determine on aesthetic pollution of the rural landscape and on negative environmental impacts on water cycle, air and agricultural soil of the agro-ecosystem.
Dyed wastewater from industrial processes pose public and environmental risks such as aesthetic pollution due to their colour (Pathania et al. 2013), and breakdown to release potentially toxic, carcinogenic or mutagenic products such as benzidine, naphthalene and other aromatic compounds (Bhatt et al. 2012; Belaid et al. 2013; Haldorai and Shim 2014; Mittal and Mishra 2014).
The use of wind electricity generation systems is inhibited by issues such as the production of noise and aesthetic pollution from wind turbines, the damage to local wildlife, and the remote location of good wind sites farther from the urban areas with high electricity demand.
We found that most relevant positive values were recreational/tourism, cultural heritage and aesthetic/scenic, and most important negative values were uncleanliness, aesthetic unpleasantness and pollution.
Currently, they are mostly considered to contribute to environmental pollution and aesthetic nuisance and thus discarded in Nigeria.
The push to expand the definition of "pollution" to include aesthetic offenses forces us to re-examine why and how we regulate the spillovers that economists call externalities.
"There was a sense that new social and political conditions were unfolding in which new practices and thinkers were urgently needed," says centre director Susan Schuppli, whose own practice explores the legal and aesthetic implications of damaged ecologies and pollution.
While it may be hard to find real-life examples like this for air pollution, they are extremely common for aesthetic conflict.
The industry has also exaggerated the aesthetic (e.g. height) and environmental (air pollution) impacts of closed-cycle cooling.
Parks with some forested areas also improve air quality, reduce noise pollution, reduce wind speed and add aesthetic and property values (Kuchelmeister 1993).
