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Paul Fowler

Paul Fowler

Musical composer

Jun 15, 2026

speaker_0HOST
3:36
Me too [laughs]
3:36
...
3:36
PFAS on them, so the rain goes off these forever chemicals.
3:41
Now, this is fine as far as it goes, but the fetus in the womb has no protection against these chemicals.
3:48
The placenta is of limited protection.
3:53
Lets a lot of stuff through.
3:54
This isn't criticizing the placenta.
speaker_0HOST
4:17
[laughs] Yeah.
ErinHOST
3:38
[laughs]
3:38
So the rain goes off these forever chemicals.
3:41
Now this is fine as far as it goes, but the fetus in the womb has no protection against these chemicals.
3:48
The placenta is of limited protection.
3:53
Lets a lot of stuff through.
3:55
This isn't criticizing the placenta.
3:57
It does its proper job very well indeed for most pregnancies.
ErinHOST
4:17
[laughs] Yeah.
18:52
What do you do to beat up my product and see how it's going to work?
18:56
So you've actually got two products there.
18:59
You've got the cup and the lid, so we're going to need to test those separately.
19:03
But what we do is we take a product through a whole series of tests.
19:08
We talk about compostability testing as if it's one sort of item, but it really comprises three really distinct tests.
19:16
One is disintegration.
19:18
which is done to understand whether a material physically falls apart in a composting environment.
22:56
Do these packaging materials do different things maybe in somebody's backyard composter versus a fancier operation?

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