If you enjoy a cold beer with a lime and you leave the lime inside the empty bottle, can you still recycle the bottle? When it comes to small food waste in your recyclables, something like a lime wedge is totally fine. In the recycling process, glass bottles are collected, crushed and melted; any residual waste (limes, paper labels, caps) are sorted out or incinerated. So go ahead and enjoy your Corona with lime, and be sure to recycle the bottle when you're done.

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Which is more water-efficient: a shower or a bath? It all depends on how long you shower. A shower puts out roughly five gallons of H2O every minute; so if you take a five-minute shower, you’re using approximately 25 gallons of water. A typical bath uses about 30 gallons of water to fill up the tub. Gallon for gallon, the five-minute-or-less shower is more efficient. But if you prefer to luxuriate and linger when you clean up, the bath becomes the more water-efficient choice.

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It can be difficult to detect if your car is leaking oil, especially if your garage is poorly lit. One way to check is to lay clean newspaper on the ground underneath the car overnight. Wait for a dry day with no rain or snow, and make sure the floor beneath the newspaper is clean and dry. The next morning, check to see if any oil has leaked onto the newspaper; if it has, you’ll know to take your car to your local auto care shop to have the leak investigated and repaired.

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