Hongkong light pollution complaints surged toward the glare of the LED lamp

According to reports, as the "sleepless city" of Hongkong, light pollution is serious, 4 years of complaints about a sharp increase of 4.5 times. The environmental group Friends of the earth pointed out that commercial advertising signs gradually use LED light is more dazzling, and the government sector complaints more worsened, the highways department and the Department last year received 116 complaints, accounting for 30% of total complaints. The Group believes that the government should set an example to avoid the public lighting of the Department "nuisance", and with reference to foreign practices regulate advertising and decorative lights before midnight or shut down within 1 hours after the shop to reduce waste of energy and nuisance.

The environment agency is investigating the tube light pollution legislation, but on the other hand the government department received complaints has increased each year, from 06 years to 09 years in 68 cases of the 377 cases, 09 years more than 08 years of rapid increase in 89%, the environmental protection department received 213 complaints relating to the private sector the lighting system of light pollution the complaint, the highways department and the LCSD has received 116 complaints.

Friends of the earth environmental affairs director Zheng Siling believe that the public will be light pollution complaints to the environmental protection department of the private sector, as for the light pollution problem of individual departments, the relevant departments to reflect, complaints such as highways on Wall Street due to the irradiation angle influence household unit, the LCSD park or the stadium is still closed after light. She urged the various government departments to improve the lighting design and lighting time, and because there is no legislation to regulate light pollution, the relevant departments are also difficult to deal with complaints received.

Last month, friends of the earth patrol also found that commercial advertising signs generally improved, only the individual shop closed shop still lit signs, and found that companies have to switch to LED lighting power, a few months ago in the mid Bowen Road received complaints from women, refers to the financial institutions LED sign nuisance residence, his son was mistaken for lightning. Friends of the earth, said the company by the name of environmental protection to save electricity LED lights, but its beam is more concentrated, more dazzling, causing more serious light pollution.

Friends of the earth to promote business in the middle of the night to turn off advertising and decorative lamps, last year invited more than and 40 companies signed a "lights out" charter, recently visited 19 of them, found no technical problems about the implementation of chapter 95%, the enterprise that lights did not affect the business performance, also can save cost. Zheng Siling said the friends of the earth has launched the first light pollution Google Map light harvesting web site (lightmap.foe.org.hk), so that the public through the online platform to report.

In response, the highways department acknowledged that it had received complaints, and that the Department would, in the light of the actual situation, transfer street lights, switch to a light bulb or use a hood. A spokesman for the Department said that some of the facilities will be open for 24 hours. The Department will carry out energy conservation under the premise of security and will follow up complaints from residents to ensure that the lighting system does not affect the residents.