A plastic shopping bag ban for the city's largest retailers was tabled Monday night by the Ann Arbor City Council.
Council member Stephen Rapundalo, D-2nd Ward, said he wanted more time to work out details and plans to bring back the resolution before the end of this year.
The tabled ordinance would bar retailers that have gross annual sales of more than $1 million from providing plastic bags. The ordinance doesn't apply to the small plastic bags often available for produce at grocery stores.
Ann Arbor would join dozens of cities across the country, including San Francisco and Palo Alto, Calif., that have passed ordinances in the past couple of years either banning or taxing the use of plastic shopping bags for environmental reasons.
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