The main idea of this passage is that there is a way to have lunches that don't produce waste, such as plastic bags or wrappers. The author says to do this all you have to do put your lunch in reusable containers and put it in a lunch bag instead of a brown paper bag. The author also explains what her invention, the Trashless Lunch is. A piece of textual evidence from this passage is that is a supporting detail is, “As with every triumph, however, there’s a stumbling block,”the gute means that with every victory or achievement, there is a part that kind of blocks the full victory. This supports the main idea because it relates to the idea of the Trashless Lunch era. The summarization of that passage is author is a mother that packs lunch for her children and she realized that the amount of trash thrown away at lunch is unnecessary. After this she came up with the Trashless Lunch which uses plastic containers instead of plastic bags and a …show more content…
I think that it might be important to have the type of attitude Reinhart has when thinking about saving the environment because the environment may never be 100% healthy so it is good to look on the positive side. It also hints that you are at least trying to to save the environment. I believe that it is better to imperfectly try to save the environment rather than understanding that it will never be perfect and not trying at all. I think this way because nobody and nothing is perfect but we still try to work on fixing it. Also because when you imperfectly help the environment you are putting in effort to make the world a healthier place.The people that imperfectly try to save the environment understand that environment may not be as healthy as it could be but still work hard to help it as much as they