Laguna Niguel Municipal Code Art. 8 Special Collection

(a) The promoter, coordinator or responsible party for a special event held within the city must provide a level of municipal solid waste storage, collection and disposal, and recyclable materials and food scraps storage, collection and diversion, sufficient to handle all such materials generated at the special event.

(b) This section shall apply to special events with 1,000 or more attendees.

(c) The responsible party shall, as part of the special event permit application, submit an implementation plan for the handling and diversion of recyclable materials and food scraps generated at the event that meets the requirements of this section 6-3-800. The responsible party shall submit a refundable deposit of $500.00 with the special event application.

(d) The promoter, coordinator or responsible party shall provide containers at appropriate locations at the special event to facilitate the source separation of municipal solid waste, recyclable materials and food scraps by event employees, vendors and attendees.

(e) The three types of containers shall:

(1) Be appropriate in number and size with respect to the quantity of municipal solid waste, recyclable materials, and food scraps anticipated to be generated at the special event.

(2) Bear appropriate signage to identify the type of materials to be contained. Containers shall meet any additional design criteria established by the city.

(3) Be placed together as municipal solid waste, recyclable materials and food scrap material stations throughout the special event venue to provide equally convenient access to users for disposal of municipal solid waste and diversion of recyclable materials and food scraps.

(f) If the promoter or coordinator determines that vendor booths at the special event will require municipal solid waste containers, the vendors shall receive from the coordinator, promoter or responsible party a set of the three containers bearing appropriate signage to identify the type of material to be contained in each container.

(g) The use of public municipal solid waste containers or public recycling or food scrap containers at special events is prohibited. The promoter, coordinator or responsible party shall remove or cover all public municipal solid waste, recycling and food scraps receptacles to prevent their use during the special event.

(h) The promoter, coordinator or responsible party shall arrange for the collection of all municipal solid waste, recyclable materials and food scraps at frequencies that prevent the overflow of said materials from storage containers at the special event. For special events of more than one day in duration, all municipal solid waste, recyclable materials and food scraps must be either collected and transported off site at the end of each day or emptied into interim containers (lidded wheeled carts, lidded bins or covered roll off boxes) at the end of each day as required to prevent odors, vectors and blowing litter.

(i) The promoter, coordinator or responsible party shall arrange for the collection and transport of all municipal solid waste to a fully permitted landfill or other fully permitted disposal site and shall arrange for the collection and transport of all recyclable materials and food scraps to permitted processing facilities for these materials to be diverted.

(j) The promoter, coordinator or responsible party shall obtain weight tickets from the disposal site and all permitted processing facilities showing the date and weight of the materials delivered to the facility from the special event. The promoter, coordinator or responsible party shall submit the following information to the City within 30 days of the end of the special event:

(1) Name and date(s) of the special event.

(2) Contact information for the responsible party, promoter or coordinator.

(3) Address of location where event was held.

(4) Number of attendees for each day of the event.

(5) Quantity of municipal solid waste collected and disposed.

(6) Quantity of recyclable materials collected and disposed.

(7) Quantity of food scraps collected and disposed.

(8) Copies of weight tickets from municipal solid waste disposal facility and all permitted processing facilities where recyclable materials and food scraps were delivered.

(k) The diversion deposit paid by the promoter, coordinator or responsible party shall be returned upon city verification that the diversion programs were carried out in compliance with this section 6-3-800. The diversion deposit shall be retained by the city in the event the city enforcement official or their designee determines that the solid waste diversion program was not implemented in compliance with this section.

(Ord. No. 2023-224, § 4, 9-5-23)