Renewable & non-renewable

resources

Kaustubh J. Sane
HJD Institute of Technical
Education & Research
• Resources are a form of energy and matter
which is essential for functioning of organism’s
population and ecosystem.
• A resource is the thing which is received from
environment to meet our needs and desires.
•
 Classification of Resources
• Biotic Resources
– Forest, fishes, Wildlife, agriculture etc.

Abiotic
Recourses

Non-
Renewable
renewable

Which can be Which cannot

recycled be recycled
• Renewable Resources
• Those sources that can be replenished
through relatively rapid natural cycles.
• Example:
– Oxygen in air
– Fresh water
– Solar energy
– All biological products
• Sustainable Yield:
– The highest rate at which a potentially renewable
resource can be used indefinitely without
reducing its available supply is called sustainable
yield.
– Increased rate of use results in environmental
degradation.
• Non-renewable resources-(recycled)
– Includes all non-energy mineral resources which occur
in the earth’s crust.
– Recycling involves collecting and reprocessing a
resource in to new products.
– Example; ores of copper, aluminum, mercury, deposits
of fertilizer nutrients.
• Non-renewable resources-(non-recycled)
– Resource that exist in a fixed quantity in Earth’s crust.
– Non-renewable resources that cannot be recycled are
those minerals that at present supplies more 90% of
our energy.
– Sources like coal, natural gas cannot be recycled once
they have been used.
Destruction versus Conservation