The phrase "avoid polluted" is not correct as it lacks a noun to clarify what is being avoided.
You can use it in a context where you want to express the need to stay away from something that is polluted, but it requires additional context for clarity.
Example: "To protect your health, it is essential to avoid polluted areas during the summer months."
Alternatives: "steer clear of contaminated" or "stay away from tainted".
(Most ivory is now destroyed by crushing, rather than burning, to avoid polluting the atmosphere).
In disposing of the dead, Parsis are enjoined to avoid polluting fire, earth and water.
To be noted also is the Zoroastrian and Parsi custom of exposing corpses on dakhmas ("towers of silence") to be devoured by birds of prey, thus to avoid polluting earth or air by burial or cremation.
To avoid polluting any room likely to be occupied by his 16-month-old son, Moses, he is standing at the open kitchen door, half in and half out of the house.
Probably with a helicopter, to avoid polluting the grass around his house … To recap, we thus primarily buy commodities neither on account of their utility nor as status symbols; we buy them to get the experience provided by them, we consume them in order to make our life pleasurable and meaningful.
In his ornate, air-conditioned office, Alam noted that the government shuts down the tanneries each year, sometimes for several weeks, to avoid polluting the river during India's greatest religious celebration, the Hindu bathing festival at Allahabad, a hundred and thirty miles downstream.
A Chebeague planning committee has recommended that junked cars there be drained of fluids to avoid polluting the groundwater; Mr. Enders, an environmental analyst, has similar worries about Peaks, where islanders often find it easier to keep a dead car on a lawn or in the road than to arrange for its disposal.
The company plans to add other partners to help avoid "polluting public spaces" with cycles.
The waste solutions containing heavy metal ions should be collectively reclaimed to avoid polluting the environment.
Moreover, the sample is placed directly in contact with the sensor, without using any coupling grease, to avoid polluting porous samples.
