Sound Ledger¹ (Too Much Sound in Brussels Edition)

8: The number of months reduced of some Brussels residents’ lives due to noise pollution

64: The percent of people in Brussels who hear 55 decibels “at any given moment of the day, equal to a normal conversation”

5.5: The multiple of normal car noise produced by trucks

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¹Footnotes

brusselstimes.com

Originally published in the March 28, 2022, edition of the This Week in Sound email newsletter. Get it in your inbox via tinyletter.com/disquiet.