GroundSignal

Park Ridge · Ordinance

Single-use bag program adopted for large retail stores

AI-assisted researchHow this was researched and checked

You are reading edition 1, an earlier version of this page. Read the current edition.

On March 18, 2026 the City Council adopted, on its consent agenda, an ordinance adding a single-use plastic bag program to the municipal code. The draft ordinance bans non-paper single-use bags in covered stores, requires recyclable paper point-of-sale bags starting January 1, 2027, and sets a fine of at least $100 per offense. The staff memo says a floor-area threshold limits the program to about nine businesses. The consent agenda vote was 7–0.

Documented status: Approved (recorded), Mar 18 2026. Evidence dated . Later outcomes require a later source.

What changed, and when did it take effect?

  1. · Approved · Recorded in minutes

    City Council adopts the bag program ordinance

    Meeting date: Mar 18 2026. Agenda item VIII. J. 1. (consent agenda): Approve the Final Reading of an Ordinance Amending the Municipal Code to Adopt the Single-Use Bag Program. Item VI: the motion carried (7 to 0).

    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2026-03-18, City Council, Mar 18 2026. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2026-03-18, City Council, Mar 18 2026. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2026-03-18, City Council, Mar 18 2026. Open the quote and source.

  2. · Scheduled · Scheduled on an agenda

    Bag ban compliance begins

    Effective date: Jan 1 2027.

    • p. 5 · Staff memo of Approve the Final Reading of an Ordinance Amending the Municipal Code to Adopt the Single-Use Bag Program (Memorandum), City Council, Mar 18 2026. Open the quote and source.

What was requested, recommended, approved, contracted, reported paid and completed?

Amounts are read from the cited pages and added up by code. A recommendation, an award or an authorized amount does not establish that money was paid.

  • Fee

    $100

    An unstated scope

    • p. 5 · Staff memo of Approve the Final Reading of an Ordinance Amending the Municipal Code to Adopt the Single-Use Bag Program (Memorandum), City Council, Mar 18 2026. Open the quote and source.

Contracts, payments and completion

No contract, payment or completion record is published for this item. Approval alone does not establish completion.

Which parcels, agencies, businesses and projects are explicitly connected?

Official identifiers and exhibit listings connect records. A name, an address or distance alone only suggests a connection.

No explicit connection is published for this item.

What remains unresolved?

No condition or deadline is published for this item. That is a limit of the published research, not evidence that none exist.

Open questions

No open question is recorded for this item.

What does the evidence suggest, and what would change it?

No conflicting records are published for this item.

Official source records

  1. City Council minutes, 2026-03-18

    City Council, Mar 18 2026

  2. Approve the Final Reading of an Ordinance Amending the Municipal Code to Adopt the Single-Use Bag Program (Memorandum)

    City Council, Mar 18 2026

Editions and corrections

Each published change is a new edition. Corrections say what changed and why.

  1. Edition 3(current)

    Edition 3: 3 revised.

  2. Edition 2Read this edition

    Edition 2: 3 revised.

  3. Edition 1(shown on this page)

    First edition.

Editorial responsibility: GroundSignal. Source review: . Independent research; not affiliated with a government agency.

Suggested citation: GroundSignal, “Single-use bag program adopted for large retail stores,” sources reviewed 2026-09-24, source records listed on this page.

Initial permanent evidence page published September 10, 2026. Follow the dated evidence above for later additions and changes. A source-check date alone does not establish a government action or project outcome.