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.
Meaning: A branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Classified under: Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents. Synonyms: Slavic; Slavic language; Slavonic; Slavonic language. Hypernyms (Slavonic is a kind of...): Balto-Slavic; Balto-Slavic language; Balto-Slavonic (a family of Indo-European languages including the Slavic and Baltic languages) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of Slavonic): Church Slavic; Old Bulgarian; Old Church Slavic; Old Church Slavonic (the Slavic language into which the Bible was translated in the 9th century)