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.
Originally Answered: Does the word 'Slavic' come from the word 'slave'? Slav a an ethnic word stems from a Slav word meaning GLORY. There are theories that that root was turned originally by the Byzantines into a word denoting slave.