162: Turning Rotten Food In To Energy

Published: April 1, 2014, 7 p.m.

b'1.3 billion tonnes of food are wasted in a year. If that amount of food being wasted doesn\\u2019t boggle your mind, think of all the energy that was wasted in processing, packaging and transporting that food. It\\u2019s an astonishing amount of waste in a world which needs to seriously look at wasting less and recycling more. Steve and Ben take a look at some options being developed to turn rotten food in to energy so that we can minimise that waste. Also on the show, Office for iPad is finally released, Aussie disaster film shelved over plot similarities to MH370, losing sleep can cause you to lose brain cells and US technology to join hunt for Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.'