"virgin resources" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is usually used to refer to resources which have not yet been exploited or used. For example, "The country is rich in virgin resources, such as oil and minerals."
The scarceness of virgin resources and sustainable management of waste materials in high-density city arouse heightened focus on new technology development for waste recycling and local utilization.
Wood waste recovery from construction activities and upcycling into secondary products allow the substitution of virgin resources and minimize the environmental burdens within the frontier of industrial ecology.
Under experimental design conditions, WPC made from post-consumer recycled wood and plastic (HDPE) were compared to WPC made from virgin resources.
The integration of waste with virgin resources to be processed by existing facilities will decrease current process' environmental impact, fossil fuel dependency and benefit from economies of scale.
So the first trick was to reduce drastically the virgin resources needed – difficult to do when building a massive Olympic park.
Around 80bn garments are produced every year from virgin resources and while polluting garment factories churn out cheap-chic, consumers choke landfills with their dumped but often delightful clothes.
Producing goods from virgin, finite resources requires energy — lots of it.
The Project, starved of revenue and Virgin's resources, was soon in such trouble that Donaldson sold off Seven's shares (and that's a separate, sad story in itself, as told by Bower).
International companies, for example, vie with nations to claim and develop resources in virgin territory in the Arctic, as melting ice reveals potentially vast oil and mineral deposits.
A12 Melting Icecaps and Big Money The Arctic is undergoing nothing less than a great rush for virgin territory and natural resources worth hundreds of billions of dollars as the thawing of the polar ice caps appears to be unlocking undiscovered oil and gas resources, lucrative shipping routes, new destinations for cruise ships and important commercial fisheries.
The reason, he said, that hardly anyone is brought to justice for these crimes is that governments are assisting a broader corporate quest for resources on virgin land, and leaders of indigenous groups are fighting them in remote areas where killers can easily escape or intimidate witnesses.
