What is Non-renewable resource?
[[File:Coal mine Wyoming.jpg|thumb|right|A [[Coal mining|coal mine]] in [[Wyoming]]. [[Coal]], produced over millions of years, is harvested much more quickly than nature can renew it|243x243px]] A '''non-renewable resource''' is a [[natural resource]] that is used up faster than it can be made by [[nature]]. It cannot be produced, grown or generated on a scale which can [[sustainability|sustain]] how quickly it is being consumed. Once it is used up, there is no more available for the future. [[Fossil fuels]] (such as [[coal]], [[petroleum]], and [[natural gas]]), types of [[nuclear power]] ([[uranium]]) and certain examples. Resources such as [[timber]] (when harvested sustainably) or [[metal]]s (which can be [[Recycling|recycled]]) are considered [[renewable resource]]s.<ref>[http://www.icax.co.uk/on_site_renewable_energy.html On site renewable energy options]</ref> Non-renewable resources are also called exhaustible resources. The [[renewable energy]] is the contrary notion. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://www.hq.nasa.gov/iwgsdi/Non_Renew_Resources.html Non-Renewable Resources] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140330161547/http://www.hq.nasa.gov/iwgsdi/Non_Renew_Resources.html |date=2014-03-30 }} at NASA.gov *[http://www.epa.gov/cleanrgy/renew.htm Electricity from Non-Hydroelectric Renewable Energy Sources] at EPA.gov *[http://iaspub.epa.gov/trs/trs_proc_qry.navigate_term?p_term_cd=TERMDIS&p_term_id=9312 Non-renewable energy resource] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080503042647/http://iaspub.epa.gov/trs/trs_proc_qry.navigate_term?p_term_cd=TERMDIS&p_term_id=9312 |date=2008-05-03 }} at EPA.gov *[http://www.epa.gov/cleanrgy/nuc.htm Environmental impacts of nuclear power] at EPA.gov {{sci-stub}} {{Natural resources}} [[Category:Sustainable development]] [[Category:Ecology]] [[Category:Energy]] [[Category:Materials]]