Each year, about a hundred are extracted from the bowels of the earth.billions of tons of resources, including fuel, ninety billion of which are later turned into waste. Therefore, the issue of resource saving in our days has become very relevant. If at the beginning of the last century only twenty chemical elements of the Periodic Table were used, then in our time it is more than ninety. Over the past four decades, resource consumption has increased twenty-five times, and the amount of industrial waste has increased one hundred times.
Rational use of natural resources -This is the most important problem of modern society. The development of progress in science and technology is accompanied by a negative impact on nature. Natural conditions - this is something that a person can not influence, as an example here is the climate. Natural resources are natural phenomena or objects used to meet the material needs of society or for production, contributing to the creation and maintenance of the conditions necessary for the existence of humanity, as well as to improve living standards.
Rational use of natural resourcesis a consequence of their reasonable study, which prevents the possibility of harmful consequences of human activity, increases and maintains the productivity of natural complexes and objects of nature. Natural resources can be divided into several basic types: practically inexhaustible (atmospheric air, solar energy, internal heat, etc.), renewable (plant, soil), non-renewable (habitat space, natural resources, river energy, etc.).
Rational use of natural resourcesrenewable type should be based on the weighted spending, as well as renewal, providing for their reproduction. Their stocks are usually restored faster than they are used. The rational use of natural resources of non-renewable type should be based on their economical and complex extraction and expenditure, as well as on the utilization of all kinds of waste. Natural resources can also be divided into potential and real. Potential resources are involved in the economic turnover, and real resources are actively used. Unfortunately, today there is a problem of depleting the resources of nature. Their level is reduced to such an extent that it becomes insufficient for a person. In connection with the depletion of natural resources, their further development becomes more economical and environmentally inexpedient. With uncontrolled use, some types of resources may disappear, and the process of their self-renewal will stop. The recovery period of some of them is several hundred or even thousands of years.
Any human intervention entailsthe destruction of unity between nature and man. The continued existence of life on Earth will directly depend on the growth of production, which in turn depends on the depletion of natural resources. Therefore, natural resources and their rational use should be under the strict control of all mankind as a whole. It is necessary to rationally use natural resources, to prevent possible harmful consequences of human activity, to maintain and increase the productivity of both individual objects of nature and natural complexes in general.
Proper use of natural wealth isthe choice of a more suitable option to achieve the economic, social, environmental effect in the use of natural resources. Of particular relevance is their complex use, which implies the use of low-waste and non-waste technologies, the use of secondary resources again. At the same time, raw materials are saved and environmental pollution by products of production is prevented.
