Disease-causing organisms such as staphylococcus aureus and pneumonia-causing bacteria have been detected in paper bills.
Polymer banknotes are printed on a non-porous plastic film, making them more durable than traditional rag-based paper bills.
Even so, with around three-quarters of billers, including most utilities, still offering only paper bills, change is unlikely to be quick.
And the savings in late-payment penalties could be valuable, too, for those better at dealing with e-mail than with paper bills.
Cutting down on the burden of moving mountains of paper bills and heavy coins could conceivably save a bundle in cost-sensitive businesses like gas and fast food.
British Gas said that the cheapest tariff was not necessarily the best option for every customer, such as those who would like to have paper bills and advice over the phone.
It is supplying customers with change-of-address labels to attach to their paper bills, so that in future they will be sent to PayMyBills, which will put them online using a high-speed scanner.
People prefer the convenience of light paper dollar bills to having their pockets and purses weighted down with clunky dollar slugs.
The Republican leadership, Harned wrote in a memo, asked the coalition to "write the definitive piece of paper trashing all these bills" and launch a grass-roots effort against them.
Until the Great Recession, the Fed limited its purchases of Treasury paper to short-term bills that carry no interest rate risk.
On the first, Harald Benink of Maastricht University and George Benston of Emory University told the conference that deposit guarantees should be explicitly confined to accounts paying a relatively low rate of interest, and that these insured deposits should be more than fully backed by safe liquid assets (such as treasury bills and commercial paper).
Given the first two bills are pretty chewy, I doubt there will be much time left for Mark Hendrick's International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill, still less for Barbara Keeley's Social Care (Local Sufficiency) and Identification of Carers Bill or Douglas Carswell's European Communities Act 1972 (Repeal) Bill, or the considerable number of other bills on the order paper.
Paper checks remain the dominant method for paying consumer bills and are also extensively used in retail and business-to-business payments.
For example, paying by direct debit with online bills would be cheaper than receiving a paper bill and paying by cheque.
Some of these countries have used polymer only for commemorative bills: these include China, where paper money was first used in the seventh century, and Brazil, where an experiment with plastic in 2000 proved unpopular.
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Paper currencies always need tacit consent from their users that they will exchange bills for actual stuff.
At the same time, he switched from a paper strip to punched cards. (Making the cards the same size as dollar bills meant that existing storage cabinets could be used.) By clever wiring of the tabulating machine, it was possible to count the number of cards with particular combinations of attributes.
The submission of some paper to some anonymous third party would not put a dent in any patient's grocery bills.
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