non-renewableˌnon-reˈnewable adjective 
All countries are being asked to cut down on their use of non-renewable resources.
EXAMPLES FROM THE 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.
WORD SETS
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY All countries are being asked to cut down on their use of non-renewable resources.
non-renewable types of energy such as coal or gas cannot be replaced after they have been used: All countries are being asked to cut down on their use of non-renewable resources. All countries are being asked to cut down on their use of non-renewable resources.