handy for swimmers

a new £5 plastic note which can surive tears, floods etc in circulation starting today...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...gland-warns-customers-end-handing-STICKY.html

 

I read that they don't respond well to heat which can cause them to shrink/curl, citing an example of leaving them on a car dashboard on a hot day!

Who would be silly enough to do that? (and where do they park their car? )

 

Under that building in London where the sun reflex off the window and burns cars and other building

 

Parents warned after reports of kids getting high from new plastic £5 notes

Cor, maybe there's a new meaning for 'high 5'?

 

Surely they knock this stuff out by the million pretty quick?


If that is the case and they are so sure moving away from paper is the way to go, why will it take so long before bringing in plastic 10ers and 20s.

I've seen Canadian plastic and Aussie plastic, dont really like it.

Cant really call it STERLING anymore though, sterling plastic just dont seem to be right.

Personally I'd have preferred a £5 coin.

 

did the title just change???

 

We have had Clydesdale bank polymer £5 up here for a year, they are good but if you have a few you have to be sure they do not stick together when handing cash out, maybe it is static that does it ?

 

Yes it did, @pete, better than the original one.