sustainable source

collocation in English

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sustainable
adjective
uk
/səˈsteɪ.nə.bəl/us
/səˈsteɪ.nə.bəl/
able to continue over a period ...
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source
noun[C]
uk
/sɔːs/us
/sɔːrs/
the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause ...
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(Definition ofsustainableandsourcefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Nuclear power is not asustainablesourceof energy.
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This system requires all timber products to be purchased from asustainablesource.
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There has been one occasion when a local authority has wished to accept a tender, which was other than the lowest submitted, utilising timber obtained from asustainablesource.
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Aqua culture is another alternative if the organism is readily grown otherwise, it may not be goodsustainablesourceof a compound.
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The ecolabel on seafood products guarantees the seafood has come from asustainablesourceand certified fishery.
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Advances in nuclear technology have significantly reduced the probability of a nuclear catastrophe and is considered an environment friendly andsustainablesourceof energy.
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These continue the use of oak from a local andsustainablesourceand are deceptively simple in their appearance.
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Most pulp mills use good forest management practices in harvesting trees to ensure that they have asustainablesourceof raw materials.
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The ability to coppice after cutting make it a possiblysustainablesourcefor fuel wood and charcoal.
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The project has been justified as providing asustainablesourceof income for the people of the region.
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Microorganisms can be used as asustainablesourcefor the production of compounds of interest.
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They realized that the impressive pine forest was asustainablesourceof pine resin used in the production of a wide variety of products like turpentine and violins.
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Thorium has been proposed as a clean, safe, proliferation resistant andsustainablesourceof energy which additionally is free from most of the issues associated with uranium.
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This may be a potentiallysustainablesourceof ammonia in the future because of its abundance and the need to remove it from the water anyway.
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In all cases there are clauses in the contract that require any wood products to come from sustainable sources.
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We aim to enhance its capacity to meet its target for all internationally traded tropical timber to come from sustainable sources by the year 2000.
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Our procurement policy is that timber must be obtained from legal and sustainable sources.
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We must change over quickly to sustainable sources so that the generations to come will not be faced with a crisis.
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However, the use of timber from sustainable sources is an integral part of our overall strategy for sustainable construction.
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We must also be very clear that our support for biofuels in transport is dependent on the development of fuels from sustainable sources.
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