which country use plastic currency instead of paper currency

Hi, I just wanted to confirm one thing here. As far as I know there is nothing like plastic currency. Now Plastic Money means use of credit card& other card inorder to make transactions. Now All the country have currency made of paper because after all we are not going to keep them forever & every month the government Issues new notes replacing the old ones & its easy for the counting machines. Plastic currency or plastic money simply means money through cards. I am telling this because I worked for a bank & hence is aware of these.

In Hong Kong, we are already beginning the transition from Paper to Plastic. - However, it's costly to make and so, at the moment we're only minting plastic ten dollars (Approx. USD 1.4). And anyway, trees are a sustainable resource. Oil isn't as sustainable as it takes millions and millions of years to create (:

Hello my dear friend, I don't know if there is a country using plastic as there currency. I don't think also if that currency is acceptable for the International Monetary fund or most of all to the people around the world. If for example you go to that country and give you a salary that is plastic are agree on that and what will be the value?..lol have a nice day!

I think it was Australia which first introduced the plastic currency.Brazil, Sri Lanka, Romania, New Zealand, and Northern Ireland were the others to follow suit.Now the Indian Government is also thinking of introducing plastic currency instead of paper currency as India is overflowing with fake currencies. The problem is that every paper currency should should be replaced by the plastic currency.It should be done in phases & it would take a lot of time.For Australia it took almost 8 years to completely introduce the plastic notes.Just think of India.With these kind of politicians & bureacrats in our country can you expect them to do it fast? USA will also introduce may be in the near future as it has already run a test trial. Hoping for a change from India.

The Indian government putforth a notice to consider the usage of semi plastic currencies in 2008 but still no concrete steps have been taken to implement that. The only country where the semi plastic currencies are being used is Australia and I think Brazil too is going to implement the usage of plastic currency. America is already condducting a trial run to introduce the plastic curency. With the Kind of Government and ministers we have, I do not think it is possbible in the near future to get the SEMI PLASTIC CURRENCIES Implemented and I am sure it'll take atleast a time span of 2 years for the currencies to be implemented in India.

Plastic currency is still not used in my country but I think if not properly secured, is it prone to counterfeiting? I guess that is one reason why it is still not widely used and the old paper bills are still reliable, but that plastic currency is sometimes called the credit card.

I agree with you that a certain country should use plastic money instead of paper money. We can also save trees if the money that will be produced is made up of plastic. I don't know why some country doesn't use plastic money but as I have observed, those countries have very good economy. I have travelled to other countries and use a lot of those plastic money while I am there either for business or vacation. Some countries that I know using plastic money are Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.

It is a good suggestion. The other day I opened my hundi box (where prayed money is kept) in the God's rack and one 10 rupee note has literally torn into pieces. If it was plastic money, it would not have been. May be our Central Government will think over to shift to plastic money.

In India too, I think we are now using plastic partially but I need to check.

Hello Yugasini. In the US, we refer to credit and debit cards as "plastic money." I am not aware of other kinds of money made of plastic. So I will be interested in seeing the responses you get here, as I might learn of another kind of plastic currency! Have a wonderful day and night. Karen

I have never heard of plastic currency. Who uses this type of currency? The reason maybe because its more difficult to make then the paper currency.

Hello It is really a very interesting question. As you have said paper money become very old after usage for some time.After a certain time nobody accepts them. If they are torn it is a gone case. So having plastic money is welcome so it will last for a long time Happy mylotting

It will be a useful one having a currency made up of plastic. The vital thing is that it cannot be torned or squashed. Moreover no body can write anything on the currency as they like. The smallest country in the world, Singapore is using plastic currency.

Thats very weird, a plastic currency instead of a paper currency? I have never heard of that before, very original. I would like to try it out and visit the country in which has that very cool paper currency!