The danger with this type of bill, is that they are known to shrivel up or melt, if heated. That has happened here in Canada with our plastic money.
“... known to shrivel up or melt, if heated ...”
The abbot at the temple my wife goes to was in Toronto a few years ago, a month or two after Canada changed to plastic bills. The abbot left a metal box with several hundred dollars on the car seat while he shopped. He later discovered that all the bills were fused together.