Sentences with phrase «nonrenewable materials»

That while they don't have a 100 percent Ingeo structure today, which is fully compostable, their first step, launching now, replaces 1/3 of the nonrenewable materials in the bag, and they've firmly set their sites on, and are fully committed to having a 100 percent Ingeo structure by this time in 2010.

Her seemingly cute report about the advances of disposables, without even a nod about several new alternative products, including biodegradable diapers, only encourages the excessive use of nonrenewable materials.

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Put most succinctly, can we produce enough food and other material necessities for an expanding world population without polluting ourselves to death and without using up essential nonrenewable resources before we find substitutes or learn to recycle what we have?

Given the present ecological realities of rising consumption and dwindling natural resources, can we be content with a situation in which 1 / 16th of the world's people use up at least 1/3 of the world's nonrenewable raw materials?

In the 1969 book «Resources and Man» by the National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, it says in the introduction: ««Man must look with equal urgency to his nonrenewable resources — to mineral fuels, to metals, to chemical, and to construction materials.

And these same yoga accessories that are meant to improve our personal lives might actually have the opposite effect our environment, considering that many of them are made with virgin materials that are not only nonrenewable in nature, but are also made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and include other undesirables such as phthalates, lead, and cadmium, and are not the easiest things to recycle at the end of their lives.