The future for recycling looks even worse. As cities move beyond recycling paper and metals, and into glass, food scraps and assorted plastics, the costs rise sharply while the environmental benefits decline and sometimes vanish.
Definition of Slavic. : a branch of the Indo-European language family containing Belarusian, Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, Serbian and Croatian, Slovene, Russian, and Ukrainian â see indo-european languages table.
East Slavic: Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian. Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian constitute the East Slavic language group. In the early 21st century Russian was spoken as a native language by some 160 million people, including many inhabitants of countries that formerly were part of the Soviet Union.