It has also meant that we have failed to see waste as a potential resource for materials and energy.
"This rule takes a conservative approach," the park service rule said, "based on consideration of potential resource impacts, conflicts with other visitors' uses and enjoyment and safety concerns".
With two-thirds of its 66 million people under age 35, Turkey has one of the world's youngest populations, a huge potential resource for a developing economy.
In the early 1990s, the United Nations and the World Bank began to proclaim the potential resource that women and girls represent.
We are unable to comment on the size of the potential resource or potential rates of production".
Officials and industry experts say the potential resource boom seems increasingly imperiled by corruption, violence and intrigue, and has put the Afghan government's vulnerabilities on display.
The country has a history of nuclear research going back more than 50 years — a potential resource that needs to be nurtured.
"Shale gas represents a promising new potential resource for the U.K.," Edward Davey, the energy and climate change secretary, said in a statement.
But the recycling rate for glass is a paltry 3 percent, reflecting the fact that most businesses, households and politicians do not see glass as a potential resource.
However, UKOG admitted that only a small portion of that estimated figure would actually be recovered but described the find as a "world class potential resource".
Greenland's resources could amount to nearly 50bn barrels of oil, a massive potential resource for the EU as most of Europe's currently exploited oil and gas fields belong to Norway, a non-member of the bloc.
