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 Russian language is a Slavic language stemming from the Indo-European language branch. Its closest relatives in terms of language and grammar are Ukrainian and Belarusian, also members of the East Slavic group of languages.