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.
The Slavic name is a loan translation of earlier Scythian RÄ (á¿¥á¾¶) Volga, literally wetness, cognate with Avestan RaÅhÄ mythical stream (also compare the derivation Sogdian râk vein, blood vessel (* raha-ka), Persian Ø±Ú¯ rag vein) and Sanskrit rasÄÌ- liquid, juice; mythical river.t flows through central Russia and into the Caspian Sea, and is widely viewed as the national river of Russia. Eleven of the twenty largest cities of Russia, including the capital, Moscow, are in the Volga's watershed (drainage basin).