Umbra’s second helpings: How to recycle beer bottles with limes

Can you recycle beer bottles with lime wedges? Umbra tosses back an answer.

Let’s face it: Some beers only taste right with a wedge of lime. But does that little slice of green mean that the bottle has to have a not-so-green ending? Umbra squeezes in a little research on this wedge issue.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of our Ask Umbra advice column, and to celebrate, we’re pulling a favorite gem of eco-advice out of the archives each week.

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