Item - 2024.IE13.7

The Infrastructure and Environment Committee recommends that:  

1. City Council direct that the confidential information contained in Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (April 17, 2024) from the City Solicitor remain confidential in its entirety, as it contains advice which is subject to solicitor-client privilege.

The Infrastructure and Environment Committee considered items IE13.7 - Prohibiting Distribution of Plastic Manufactured Items, together with item IE13.6 - Update on Stage 2 of the Single-Use and Takeaway Items Reduction Strategy.

On December 13-15, 2023, City Council adopted IE9.3 – Update and Action Plan on Single-Use and Takeaway Items Reduction Strategy, including the Circular Food Innovators Fund.  Among other things, the Council resolution requests the City Solicitor to report to the Infrastructure and Environment Committee on the legal feasibility of enacting and enforcing, pursuant to the City of Toronto Act, 2006, a By-law that would prohibit retail business establishments in Toronto from providing their customers with the same plastic manufactured items that the federal government prohibits in the Single-use Plastics Prohibition Regulations.

This supplementary report to the report from the General Manager, Solid Waste Management Services entitled Update on Stage 2 of the Single-Use and Takeaway Items Reduction Strategy (the “SWMS Report”) responds to Council’s direction.