Silence in the room. It is increasingly difficult to find a place where absolutely nothing is heard, or even hear the sound of nature. Today April 27 is International Day of Noise Awareness looking for that "sound peace" to our ears, so difficult to find nowadays and that is as necessary as it is harmful for both the medium around us and ourselves. Apart from noise pollution can produce hypertension, deafness, insomnia and a long ... list of consequences caused by not taking care of the noise generated.
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The latest data provided by GAES report that Spain is the second country that generates more noise, surpassed only by Japan, with some horrifying statistics: more than nine million English support levels above the established (65 decibels according to the World Health Organization), the 87% think that Spain is a country where the locals noisy are the more complain about it while they accuse Basque and Galician less or 22% who say that people comment that they speak very highly.
With these data, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment has sought to have schools join this special day, issuing a series of activities that can bring out the students to address the prevention of noise pollution . This initiative is aimed at education centers, Primary and Secondary mainly. Thus, in this week from April 25 until February 30 shall carry out the activities with students .
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in Spain who is responsible for various activities related to this day is the English Society of Acoustics (SEA) , which This year's proposal has sought to place special emphasis on the following points:
- Place posters around town without Noise Day
- education centers in making and exhibition of works on the subject
- Carry out an act to reinforce what you want to transmit in a place where they can assist both students and parents.
GAES also wanted to join this day and we can find the streets are being proposed After all, the "Silent patrols." These patrols will invade our streets to teach people how you can reduce noise, with respect both to those around us and the environment in general. And they will hand out cards with tips on caring for our ears, and also giving hearing protection.
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few tips that we give from Educambiente to contribute to reducing noise pollution are :
- losaparatos limit the volume of electronic and non-use devices that produce muchoruido too.
- By moving through topics house cuidadocon have to move chairs, tables, walking in high heels around the house ...
- transportepúblico Making use of fewer cars on the road, and less noise in the streets. Ademásel horn use is harmful.
- not use both pequeñosque helmets are more to do resent the ear is better to use other types deauriculares.
- In places with excessive noise esrecomendable the use of earplugs, and for example in discos, not to abuse elloya that requires a rest period to the ears of about 15 hours.