Plastic materials are inherently insulators and hence susceptible to the accumulation of static electricity. This buildup of static charge may create severe problems in many areas where plastics are used such as in hospital environments, fiber spinning and processing, explosives manufacture, and packaging of sensitive electronic components. With the ever-increasing use of electronic integrated circuits in business equipment, the need to protect these circuits from operator-induced static discharge (such as obtained from walking on a carpet) becomes vitally important. Therefore, the ability to eliminate unwanted static charges at low cost is very desirable.