For several weeks, bags taped to posts served as replacements for garbage receptacles that were removed ahead of the G20 summit. (Pras Rajagopalan/CBC)

City crews are still replacing hundreds of the street furniture items removed from Toronto's downtown before the G20 summit.

Garbage bins, transit shelters, newspaper boxes and some young trees in the area around the Metro Toronto Convention Centre — the site of the June 26-27 summit — were all deemed potential hazards.

Security officials believed many of those items could have been used as weapons and decided to remove almost all street furniture in the area ahead of the meeting of world leaders.

"Most of the garbage bins are back in place," said Patricia Trott, spokeswoman for the City of Toronto. "There's about 50 left to be replaced. Those are being worked on now and will all be finished the end of this week."

Five of the seven transit shelters that were removed from the downtown core have been put back, she said.

She couldn't say when a few hundred newspaper vending boxes would be reinstalled, saying that's up to the companies that own them.

The 17 trees that were deemed possible security hazards and uprooted won't be replanted until September, said Brad Eyre, a spokesman for the city's forestry department.

Toronto police have also removed about half of the 77 security cameras installed ahead of the summit.

"The other half will begin to be taken down starting this Thursday. But all the cameras, even those that are still physically put up across the city, have been turned off. They are no longer recording images," said Toronto police spokeswoman Meaghan Grey.

The cameras, which are owned by Toronto police, may be used in case the city hosts another event like the summit, Grey said.