Nope. I bought a pair of plastic bladed shovels for our trucks when I first got married (hmmm, I think that was 14 years ago - I'd better ask my wife ... yeah right, not a good idea) and they are still working well. My kids have used them to help clear the driveway since they could carry them and that was about eight winters now and they are still in very good shape...and you know how hard kids can be on anything. Thanks to the miracle of modern plastics!

Plastic shovels without a metal edge aren't much use for scraping ice, but they work great for clearing snow.