I still haven't got a clue! How should I answer the question for my students who are in the third year of GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education ) in Egypt? By the way, all my colleagues agree it's (nonrenewable).
As an English teacher, it's important that your posts are correctly written. Please remember the rules of spacing around punctuation:
- We do not put a space before a comma, full stop, question mark or exclamation mark.
- We always put a space after a comma, full stop, question mark or exclamation mark.
If you and your colleagues all agree that it's non-renewable, then tell your students that that is, in your opinion, the correct answer. If you wish, you can tell them that there were differing opinions on this forum - however, we weren't arguing about the English, we were arguing about whether rubbish is renewable or not. I'm sure that by the third year of their GCSE they are probably aware that not all the questions they are going to face have a straight answer. Even tests written by native speakers can contain unfair questions which have no one single correct answer.