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What is "non-renewable"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
non-renewable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a non-renewable resource
▪ We should reduce our use of non-renewable resources.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Assessing those effects of global change which will be large scale and cause major modifications to both renewable and non-renewable resources.
▪ Estimates of the availability of non-renewable fuels vary.
▪ However, as we have seen, these are non-renewable and rapidly running out.
▪ On water consumption, the report warned that many countries were rapidly depleting non-renewable sources such as sealed aquifers.
▪ The key threat that Green politics poses to the capitalist global system is in the matter of the consumption of non-renewable resources.
▪ These are the non-renewable sources of energy that have been used predominantly in the past.
▪ They are also increasing their rate of consumption of non-renewable resources in the form of fossil fuels.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
non-renewable

also nonrenewable, 1946, from non- + renewable.

Wiktionary
non-renewable

a. (alternative spelling of nonrenewable English)

Usage examples of "non-renewable".

Plastic plumbing pipe (PVC pipes) can be manufactured using renewable hemp cellulose as the chemical feedstocks, replacing non-renewable coal or petroleum-based chemical feedstocks.

The net result from the viewpoint of the Landholders, would be to transfer income from landed to industrial capital Increase the drain on the planet's non-renewable resources, and decrease the gentry's quality of life.

The major assumption of Niven's version of history is that once upon a time magic really worked, but that it was based on a non-renewable resource: manna Magical creatures and magicians (and before them the gods themselves) used up manna at a frightful rate-until finally the magic goes away.

Seeking for cause, the first reaction is to conclude that it came about through an anger born of a hatred of what technology had brought about—the depletion of non-renewable resources, pollution of the environment, the loss of jobs resulting in massive unemployment.

One possibility is that if we can learn the secret of this alien cellulose, the procedure by which the cellulose is changed into the bodies of the visitors, we may be able to utilize cellulose as a substitute for many of our decreasing non-renewable resources.