2026.IE30.12
Expansion of Ontario’s Deposit Return Program
Background
“Ontario operates a successful deposit return system for alcohol, seeing an average of 75 percent of all empties returned to Beer Stores each year. The deposit return provides a consumer incentive to consciously recycle. This system must be expanded to include all beverage containers. Ontario is one of Canada’s only provinces without a deposit-return program for non-alcoholic beverages. As a result, Ontario has the lowest beverage container recovery rate in Canada—at roughly 50% of containers being recycled. The Ontario government proposed expanding the deposit return program to include non-alcoholic containers in 2023 but has yet to do so.”
Source: City of Toronto
Item Description
“City Council request the City Manager to send a letter of support to the Province of Ontario, asking to immediately implement a deposit-return program for non alcoholic beverage containers”
Source: City of Toronto
Proposed by
Infrastructure and Environment Committee
Result
CarriedVotes
