As a nonrenewable resource, isn't the steel theoretically even more precious than the paper?
Time is the ultimate nonrenewable resource, and we are rapidly running out of it.
Russia continues to export nonrenewable resources in exchange for hard currency.
During the past decade, the debate over the environment and nonrenewable resources has raised.
The potential emissions from coal, oil and gas is limited by the supply of these nonrenewable resources.
"Shouldn't I feel guilty," he asks, "about using all these nonrenewable resources once and then throwing them away?"
The exhaustion of nonrenewable resources, though the evidence is less clear-cut, may be equally serious.
But oil is finite - it's a nonrenewable resource, which means that we will eventually run out of it.
Uranium is a nonrenewable resource and when used at present rates would eventually be exhausted.
We still insist on tapping dwindling nonrenewable resources to make our world run.