"virgin materials" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used in any context where you are referring to materials or resources that are newly produced, as opposed to recycled or used materials. Example: The company boasts of using only sustainable, virgin materials in their product line.
For every closet door, light fixture or sink that is used again, one less has to be made from virgin materials, and one less goes into a landfill.
Darby Hoover, a senior resource specialist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, praised Ford for focusing on agricultural waste, rather than virgin materials.
It also educates homeowners and business owners on how to minimise the use of virgin materials in both new projects and remodels.
It would cut greenhouse gas emissions from landfill sites and from manufacturing new products such as cans and bottles from virgin materials.
Bottle bills reduce litter and pickup/disposal costs and conserve natural resources as recycling uses less energy than making the product from virgin materials.
If markets were better developed, then recyclates from metals to plastics could be sold as a resource in place of virgin materials.
As often than not, single-use packages of food and drinks are made from virgin materials and then tossed in the trash.
The country has a large appetite for raw materials and that includes scrap metals, waste paper and plastics, all of which can be cheaper than virgin materials.
At the moment, it is often cheaper to process virgin materials, despite the extra energy required, because collecting and sorting recyclables is so labour-intensive.
It should refer to taking the component parts of a redundant object and using them to create a new, useful object, thereby reducing the use of virgin materials".
At present, batteries are made out of virgin materials and manufacturers' research and development investment is concentrated on improving performance, cutting production costs and unit weight, and phasing out the most hazardous ingredients.
