But the most significant change in modern science is not just about the amount of noise, but how we experience it. Noise is no longer understood solely as a problem that affects hearing, it is also recognised as a systemic environmental pollutant. Transport noise is now one of the leading environmental cause of illness in Europe, second only to air pollution.
We throw ours in a ditch which I think is technically illegal for some stupid reason but I’ll be damned if I’m using a plastic bag for organic waste that I could just kinda… leave there.