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May 27, 2018 17 min

Preventable Plastic Pollution

from Who Gets What? Hosted by John Guy, Morton Marcus, Bill Briscoe

Our guest, Bill Briscoe, is a retired Monsanto product manager who, in 1970, helped to create and produce the world's first commercial plastic soft drink container. Bill describes how the original product would have served well, but was taken off the market by FDA action, reversed five years later, but, by then, too late, because a different product dominated the market.

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