It combines a strand of standard plastic with a layer made from a "smart" material that can absorb water.
Landfills without the benefit of a naturally impermeable layer use plastic liners and imported clay.
Now each layer of plastic is as thin as a sheet of copy paper, resulting in smooth printed prototypes.
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She removed the lid of the oatmeal and the canned pears and peeled off the layer of plastic wrap covering the glass of water.
Though its Blu-Ray machines have been its biggest money maker, the German technology company has thus diversified into other areas, where it can replicate its expertise for metalization, i.e. the process of coating plastic with a thin layer of metal.
The printers follow the shape of the model by stacking layer upon layer of molten plastic to produce the items.
Packages covered with a sealed layer of clear plastic are modified-atmosphere packages, which have a gas-filled space inside to help preserve freshness and color.
The technology works by building up layer upon layer of material - typically plastic - to build complex solid objects.
In addition, the OLEDs can be fabricated onto a flexible plastic substrate rather than a rigid glass layer, making it easier to manufacture them into a curved screen.
But it is possible to lay down a thin layer of silicon on a flexible plastic sheet, through a process called vacuum deposition.
They said that by using stereolithography, their printer could offer "layer thicknesses and feature sizes that are worlds ahead of what is possible with" the existing technique used by budget printers, which melt plastic and squeeze it through a nozzle to build up each layer of an object.
The mountain is a giant, putrid layer-cake, with dozens of strata of rubbish separated by soil and plastic liners designed to contain the brew of noxious chemicals that would otherwise leach into groundwater.
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