Cling...Cling...Clank. From inside my apartment, I winced(皱起眉头)at the noise my parents were making as they sorted bottles and cans out on the balcony(阳台).I called to my mother
in Chinese, “Hoe many do you have this time?” “Eight hundred and six pieces, that's $40.30!”she answered. I'd been living in my Los Angeles apartment for over four years when my parents came for a six-month visit from China. I'd seldom notices that the plastic bottles and cans they'd collected on the road were worth5 cent