Outdoor LED screen change sleep killer light pollution into a thorny problem

At 2 in the morning, when people sleep, 4 months pregnant, but Miss Ma and restless in bed, across the floor billboards a bright neon lights shone through the curtains of the bedroom like lights in general. The suffering of Ms. Ma called the hotline complaints.

The neon lights illuminate the bedroom at night

Miss Ma in Dangtu branch of a residential area, two bedrooms and a living room window is south, however a recent weight loss mechanism of South building installed a billboard in the building on the north, the billboard is composed of numerous neon "reduced fat" two words.

"Because the large living room is the road outside the window, the night light is the living room lights shone bright, who knows actually installed across the upstairs and neon billboards, the light is too bright, can penetrate my bedroom curtains. "Four months pregnant, Ms. Ma complained that the billboard in the evening, the neon lights, neon red and green, particularly dazzling at night. "It's always going on, I'm worried about the baby. "

For this problem, depressed Miss Ma through the network search to know, this problem is "light pollution". "I've heard nothing but air pollution, noise pollution, but I didn't expect it to be a kind of pollution. However, Ms. Ma is disappointed, she found from the online search, the current environmental protection departments in many cities and there is no corresponding laws and regulations to control.

"What should I do? Can this problem be solved? Very depressed Miss Ma to this newspaper for help.

Outdoor screen neon light is the main source of pollution

Miss Ma for complaints of "light pollution", the reporter access to relevant data found that the word "light pollution" by the national science and Technology Approval Committee announced, refers to the excessive radiation adverse effect on human life and production environment of the phenomenon, such as: artificial daylight.

After the arrival of the night, the reporter also visited the area along the Yangtze River in Hefei. In the Yangtze River Road and Suzhou Road intersection northeast side, a large screen is playing all kinds of advertising, all kinds of light emitted by the big screen constantly changing, the light is very harsh, people can not even look into the big screen, but also in the big screen light at this crossroads area is very bright, even as the day.

In large shopping malls and the Yangtze River Road with road junction, the building body covered with external light, the mall building at night under the background was very bright, the mall and nearby roads and houses in the light is very bright.

Reporters visited several places in Hefei found that, in addition to the street lights will illuminate the city road outside, some shopping malls outside the decorative neon lights and some large screen outdoor billboards to make the city's night bright. Some members of the public reflect that these lights at night can make people walking outside a sense of security, but if the light is still in the middle of the night, the life of the surrounding residents will still have some impact.

Mayor hotline complaints received dozens of years

Light pollution has a great impact on people's lives? How many complaints of light pollution each year? Reporters from Hefei city mayor hotline office learned that, according to incomplete statistics, in 2012 the annual mayor's hotline 12345 received similar light pollution complaints since 39, from January 1, 2013 to October 20th 12345, the mayor's hotline received a total of more than 47 complaints from the public. Mayor hotline staff said that these complaints are just incomplete statistics, may be more than the complaint to the data.

Light pollution complaints mainly include LED lights, neon lights, outdoor advertising big screen, construction site searchlights, there are a small number of complaints is to bring trouble to the street life. "Hefei city mayor hotline office staff said that these types of complaints, mainly in the neon lights and outdoor advertising complaints outdoor large screen majority," after our hotline here received public complaints about light pollution, will be notified to the urban management, environmental protection or other departments according to different types of it light pollution itself, we still go to the environmental protection department. "

At present, there is no environmental regulations in Hefei

With the public Miss Ma anguish, reporter also called the 12369 Hefei Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau report telephone, when the reporter said Miss Ma encounter environmental complaints hotline staff said, "you are the light pollution, there is this statement. "

Since there is a "light pollution" this argument, then it is not light pollution control regulations? 12369 complaints hotline of the Hefei Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau staff told reporters that the current Hefei has no legal or regulatory governance "light pollution", if the public because the "light pollution" problem to the Hefei Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau complaints, the Hefei Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau will accept all people or units the way is the environmental protection departments and large screen billboard consultations, reduce the "light pollution". "The public can also contact the owner of the outdoor screen billboards or units to negotiate, if the consultation fails, the public can also be in accordance with the general principles of the civil law to resort to legal means to resolve. "

Light pollution: the national science and Technology Terminology Committee approved the definition of light pollution: 1 excessive light radiation on human life and production environment caused by bad effects