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SHOREWOOD - Shorewood is making history this week. In a first of its kind in Wisconsin, a citizens group will hand out reusable shopping bags to every home in Shorewood on Saturday. It’s an effort to reduce our carbon footprint. If you do a lot of shopping in Shorewood, but you don't think about the environment, city officials have a plan in hopes of changing that. It's a question raised every time we shop: Paper or plastic? "I know I have them piling up at home and I don't really know what to do with them,” Amanda Ritchey said. Now, the Shorewood Conservation Committee wants Ritchey and others to answer by saying neither. “This is made once and you can use it thousands of times,” Kim Forbeck said. Forbeck is talking about a reusable bag that she and others will be delivering to every home Saturday in Shorewood...free of charge. This is first community in Wisconsin ever do to this. “If the 6,900 households in Shorewood would use this twice a week, we would keep 720,000 bags out of the landfill each year,” Forbeck said. It's all in an effort to get us all thinking about the planet on which we live. “I think it would be a great idea,” Ritchey said. Sendik's grocery store is one of many businesses in Shorewood that helped pay for the cost of the bags. In return, their name, along with other names, will be printed on the side. Only private money was used for this project with each bag costing about 81 cents to make. Each one is recyclable.