Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa

QUICK HITS
12:15 Wasted food - why?
13:10 Insect sting index
13:30 Urine sauvage, the pee patrollers
13:50 Slimy boat hulls

The Fine Print
First up, how much of the food you buy ends up in the bin? We're speaking to Tristram Stuart, the writer of 'Waste: uncovering the global food scandal' who reckons a scandalous amount of perfectly good food is ending up in the bin. He puts a lot of the responsibility for food waste on the big supermarket chains and things like their stocking and ordering practices. We see what the big New Zealand supermarket chains make of his argument and visit a waste facility turning food waste into compost for people's gardens.

After the news at 1:10pm how would you rate a wasp sting versus a bee sting...which is the most painful? Well Justin Schmidt is an entomologist who's spent years developing a rating scale for insect stings. He's been stung thousands of times all in the name of research!

At 1:30pm we're back in the iPlot. Colin Walker's dropping by our urban veggie patch to see how the compost heap's getting on.

Then at 1:35pm we head to Paris where the city authorities are getting serious about people urinating in public. They're using everything from splash-back wall coverings to undercover surveillance of high traffic spots to crack down on this smelly problem.

And before we go a clever way to stop barnacles and all sorts of other marine life building up on a ship's hull that could save boat owners a fortune in fuel costs and maintenance bills!

TRACKS
Track: Kinky Afro
Artist:The Happy Mondays
Album: Factory Records: Communications 1988-1992
Label: FACTORY
Catalogue #: 463379
Broadcast at: 12:47

Track: Boat Behind
Artist: Kings of Convenience
Album: Declaration of Dependence
Label: Astralwerks
Catalogue #:
Broadcast at: 13:10

Track: What's the Attitude
Artist: Cut Chemist featuring Hymnal
Album: Whip It- music from the motion picture
Label: RHINO
Catalogue #: 798 470
Broadcast at: 13:40