To assemble these little critters, Ibiden has developed its own plastic resins and a new process for building up layers of plastic that contain intricate patterns of copper wiring (see diagram).
Protesting about the inclusion of pink plastic bricks in a building set strikes me as trivialising what can indeed be a serious problem.
Printing in 3D involves sending a design file to a printer that then forms a solid version of that object by slowly building it up in layers of plastic.
The building in central Kolkata houses shops selling plastic goods and paper, he said.
GoodWoodWatch, a collaboration of local environmental groups and the Canadian branches of Greenpeace and the Sierra Club, has praised Vanoc for using renewable, local lumber in place of building materials like steel, aluminium and plastic, which have much higher carbon costs.
The game comes with a really cute set of plastic birds, pigs, and building blocks.
Next weekend's Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon and Half-Marathon, organized as a tribute to the victims of the 1995 bombing that killed 168 people at that city's federal building, only accepts gear in the clear plastic bag it provides runners.
The technology works by building up layer upon layer of material - typically plastic - to build complex solid objects.
Or, it might be thoughts of the kids or grandkids with whom you spent hours on end building cities and airports and castles with those little plastic blocks.
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Before we left, Uncle Gocha turned on a scratched plastic radio, which piped music through the building's outdoor speaker system.
Ramanathan says Visa wants to see that foreign travellers have the option of using plastic in Myanmar as a first step to building a presence there.
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Just off the M8 at Newhouse, there's a shiny newish building packed to the steel rafters with tiny glass tubes in plastic trays.
The man later told police that his dog called attention to a black plastic bag, which he took back to a garden outside his building.
Archer Daniels Midland is building a factory in Clinton, Iowa that will annually crank out 50, 000 tons of plastic naturally produced by corn-eating bacteria.
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