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.

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.

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.&nbsp;&nbsp; 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.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Preventable Plastic Pollution

Distribution of goodies in our society is determined by families, firms, and governments. Attempts to change how rewards and punishments, benefits and costs, are spread through the population cause conflict. The hosts are an economist, Morton Marcus, and a financial advisor, John Guy. Expect whimsy.

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