nonpolluting
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- adjective
- /nɒn.pəˈluː.tɪŋ/
:
no contaminante
- Using nonpolluting products helps reduce the overall impact on our planet's ecosystems.
Examples
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A third problem with the pollution model is that it obscures the roles of invisible and seemingly nonpolluting human activities, such as farming, clearing land, and using energy inefficiently.
Academic text (1997) -
Bicycles and small, nonpolluting cars were moving on the streets.
Fiction book (2000) -
On the negative side, there has been no money for environmental cleanup and investment in nonpolluting, efficient technologies.
Academic text (1995) -
The condenser has grown four times in volume since freon has been replaced with a new, nonpolluting refrigerant.
Academic text (1994) -
It is renewable, nonpolluting, and abundant in the midlatitudes.
Academic text (1994) -
Now, we are at a point in time with Chernobyl and other nuclear accidents as part of our legacy, with an ozone hole generated by chemicals that twenty years ago would have been on nearly every chemist's short list as nontoxic, noncorrosive, and nonpolluting.
Academic text (1992) -
Many communities are investing in nonpolluting energy sources to protect the environment.
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The city promotes nonpolluting public transportation options like electric buses and bicycles.
Antonyms
How Polluting
Surface Forms
Morphology
nonpolluting = polluting (transparent) = non + pollute + ing
The productive negation prefix 'non-' added to 'polluting' yields a direct meaning 'not causing pollution'.
Etymology
Nonpolluting is built from non- meaning 'not' and pollute meaning 'to make dirty or harmful', as in pollution. So, nonpolluting describes something that does 'not make the air, water, or land dirty or harmful'.