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Originally posted by Surfacing
...so it use's up a little oil (1), paper use's up wood (2), atleast with the plastic one's the counter fit statistics would drop (3). Besides they will most likely find something else to make plastic out of when the time comes. And yeah this topic title is about changing the design of the note. And does'nt New York have the same note as the rest of the U.S? (4)
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1) It would use up a hell of a lot of oil if a country as big as the US converted all its banknotes to plastic.
2) As Max said, wood is a renewable source. But so-called 'paper' notes ren't actually made of true wood paper; they're actually made from cotton.
3) How so? Isn't watermarking the paper notes an effective deterrent? It is here.
4) Yes, it does. I never said it didn't.
The first step in changing the US note should definitely be the sizes. Here, the larger the note's value, the larger the physical size of the note (£50 notes are big enough for a mouse's duvet). I didn't like the fact that I couldn't tell at a glance the difference between a $1 note and a $50 one when I went to America; I had to get the note out of my wallet and read it to find out what it was.