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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I read a similair article in the National Post last week. The bank of Canada will reimburse you for the bills, after they test to confirm that the damage was not intentional. Can take up to 6 months.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Australia has polymer money and is a very hot country, I wonder if they had the same problem at all?
Not sure why anyone would put their money on top of a toaster either...
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Valued Member
Canada
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they were talking about it on the radio yesterday and the guy said that the bills would melt at 140 celsius. So unless someone leaves the bill on the dash at full sunlight and even then I don't think that in canada, it would reach that high.
anyway why would someone leave 50's and 100's in the car at plain view or on a toaster ?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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^lol  In the National Post article a lady had put them in a can, and put it beside (or on....I don't remember) a floor heater. |
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Sure I always leave $100 bills laying around on my dashboard during the summer. Doesn't everybody? In the winter I like to put them in my microwave oven.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I find it rather hilarious when a polymer note is ironed at high temperature.
We have all heard of the shrinking dollar due to inflation. This sort of currency just does not stand up to the heat.
Still, I suppose it is better than catching fire, as can be possible with a paper currency.
In all seriousness polymer notes are much more durable overall than paper notes. That is one of the reasons why they were introduced.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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The bills were said to be "indestructable." [sic]
How did more durable than cotton paper morph into indestructible? |
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United States
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At least when they are worn they still have "Melt value"
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Canada
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This has annoyed me since the first day the notes were released. Not the fact that the notes can be damaged when they are in high temperatures, but the fact that people will do random tests to show that the note has a "problem." Like others said in this thread, I don't think the temperatures that make the notes melt are even possible naturally in Canada, unless they are being exposed to a different source of heat. Sure, if you leave your banknotes in your dryer, they might get damaged. But with our old notes, they would be completely destroyed, yet nobody would ever complained about that.
All in all, the new polymer notes are a lot stronger then our old notes, and it is going to save the Government big time.
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Australia
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among all the material published when polymers were introduced, we were told that the notes, when eventually they became unfit, were "recyclable" - into what, I do not recall.
Just checked the RBA website - can't see anything about it there.
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Canada
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Here's what eventually what I analyzed:
Some people want to complain about the government in a certain way, therefore, they catch this chance. Let's just say that that the bill does NOT melt after two minutes in microwave. The person would eventually add another minute. At some point, the bill will eventually melt, and the person would have the chance to complain.
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This has annoyed me since the first day the notes were released. Not the fact that the notes can be damaged when they are in high temperatures, but the fact that people will do random tests to show that the note has a "problem."
Here's what eventually what I analyzed:
Some people want to complain about the government in a certain way, therefore, they catch this chance. Let's just say that that the bill does NOT melt after two minutes in microwave. The person would eventually add another minute. At some point, the bill will eventually melt, and the person would have the chance to complain.It's human nature - the same force that makes people touch objects with "wet paint" signs on them, just to see if the paint really is still wet. When the first experimental polymer note came out in Australia in 1988, part of the design as an "optically variable device", or OVD. Intended to be analogous to a watermark on the paper notes, it was a small disc of greyish hologram-like shiny refractive plastic, kind of resembling the panels on a scratch-it lottery ticket. So when the notes were issued, the first thing the nitwits who received them did was scratch off the OVD with a coin or other object. Note production was halted for several months while the government printer worked on making the OVD less idiot-proof, but in the end, after the initial series of commemorative notes, the OVD concept was abandoned in favour of clear plastic windows. Quote:
we were told that the notes, when eventually they became unfit, were "recyclable" - into what, I do not recall.
Just checked the RBA website - can't see anything about it there. Then ye didn't look hard enough.  According to this RBA page, they can be made into "useful plastic products such as compost bins, plumbing fittings and other household and industrial products". The website has pictures. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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useful plastic products such as compost bins, plumbing fittings and other household and industrial products You know how many biss (=cash) is needed to build one bin? |
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