Although less than 1 percent of the complaints reported to the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) each year deal with light pollution, leading the agency to not consider it a problem, Taiwan Dark-Sky Association chairman Axiou Lin (林正修) disagrees.
Members of the public have filed 300 to 400 light pollution complaints per year since the promulgation of the Light Pollution Control Guidelines (光污染管理指引) in March last year, the EPA has said.
While more than 50 percent of the 200,000 complaints filed with the agency each year pertain to noise pollution, Department of Air Quality Protection and Noise Control Director-General Tsai Meng-yu (蔡孟裕) said