n. A pejorative name for billboards, particularly as used by environmentalists and anti-corporate activists.
1999
Although reviled by some as "pollution on a stick", billboards have become one of the hottest advertising media.
1998
Kelley worries about some of the fights he has lost. He predicts that gambling will increase crime in the state. He growls about his lack of success in eliminating billboards, a cause he has championed since the 1970s.
"They're just pollution on a stick. You don't need them at all," he said.
"They're just pollution on a stick. You don't need them at all," he said.
1991 (earliest)
But name another medium so dogged by regulators. Environmentalists call billboards "pollution on a stick." Six states and more than a thousand local governments, including cities such as Houston, St. Louis and San Diego, have restricted them.