| Overused in industry and agriculture, and under threat from the retreat of the Himalayan glaciers, water is becoming a non-renewable resource. |
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| Accordingly, oil and natural gas should be considered a non-renewable resource. |
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| The majority of plastics on the market are derived from petrochemical sources, a finite and non-renewable resource. |
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| He stressed that underwater cultural heritage is a non-renewable resource and that this resource is being used and abused. |
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| Soil is a vital and largely non-renewable resource increasingly under pressure. |
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| Steel is made from a non-renewable resource so we only have a limited amount to export. |
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| Soil is a non-renewable resource and a system which performs functions and delivers services essential to human needs and ecosystems survival. |
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| However, a skilled coach, aware that surprise is a non-renewable resource, would be wise to save his trick plays for the situations likely to matter most. |
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| Sustainable development can and should be applied to a non-renewable resource such as minerals and metals. |
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| In the last decade, the settlement of land claims has increased Aboriginal people's interest in the non-renewable resource potential of their lands. |
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| As a non-renewable resource, it is of the utmost importance in sustaining biodiversity, as a source of raw materials and also as a storage and filter medium for nutrients and water. |
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| Natural capital can clearly be depreciated when, for example, a non-renewable resource such as oil is used up, or when a species dies out, or when air pollution increases. |
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| So antibiotics are a non-renewable resource when you look at it in that way. |
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| When I think of this, it makes me think of antibiotics as a non-renewable resource. |
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| A fossil resource is a depletable or non-renewable resource whose creation requires far longer than human lifespan. |
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| The boreal region could be made into a dead zone, and the oil and gas sector would still extract the non-renewable resource. |
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| Globally, greenhouse gas emissions, non-renewable resource consumption and even social inequality are rising, and the possibility of decoupling ecological impact from economic performance is far from proven. |
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| However, if such recharge is negligible from the point of view of the management of aquifers, we must treat the water in those aquifers as a non-renewable resource. |
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| The project's global energy consumption will also enable to quantify the reduction of fuel consumption, a non-renewable resource that is harmful to the environment. |
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| This can be achieved by publishing indicators of non-renewable resource usage in production and consumption and their associated productivity, i.e. GDP relative to these measures. |
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| Most gasoline is derived from crude oil, a non-renewable resource. |
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| Although the mineral sector can contribute to sustainable development, individual mines involve a non-renewable resource and will eventually close permanently. |
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| Mining companies are depleting a non-renewable resource. |
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| We have heard that soil is our most important non-renewable resource. |
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| Soil is essentially a non-renewable resource and a very dynamic system which performs many functions and delivers services vital to human activities and ecosystems survival. |
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| One of the comments made was that the first day of the end of a mine is the first day of operation, when the first shovelful is taken out, because the material mined is a non-renewable resource. |
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