Characteristics of ways to protect the environment You can not totally abstain from the exploitation of natural resources, minerals and energy, at least at the current level of technological advancement. Hence the need to protect non-renewable resources is to: reduce the extraction and exploitation of available resources more difficult and less efficient, rational use, or for reducing the consumption of raw material in the manufacture of the product by minimizing the amount of waste. It is also a powerful, comprehensive utilization of minerals, including minerals extracted as by-products, which are often rejected and lost, as far as possible replacement of the raw material prior to its raw materials created from renewable or waste, the use of recycling, IE re, recycling of waste and waste products, or multiple use products such as glass packaging for new sources of raw material, in the future, perhaps even beyond the Earth, reducing the energy intensity in industrial processes, which affect the reduction of energy consumption.