Visual pollution

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Visual pollution is the term given to unattractive visual elements of a vista, a landscape, or any other thing that a person might want to look at. Commonly cited examples are billboards, litter, graffiti, telephone lines and poles, contrails, buildings, signs, weeds and advertisements.

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