Before you throw these bottles away, consider giving them a new lease on life. These little containers are often made of sturdy amber or cobalt glass, designed to be leakproof, preserve potency ...

Those burnt orange or amber-toned prescription bottles are standard. We’ve all seen them, picked up our own prescriptions in ...

but the modern plastic pill bottle as we know it today, with its distinctive orange hue (technically, it’s called amber) and its white “push and turn” cap, wasn’t introduced until 1968.

and covering the bottles with plastic labels. It asked grocers to use an amber filter in their refrigerators. It also tried blocking the light by asking stores to install solid refrigerator doors ...