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Speaker 1: Hey, I've got to get you across what the Labor

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Speaker 1: Party is just doing. It's actually, it's actually quite interesting.

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Speaker 1: And the huddle standing by. We have got Jack Tame

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Speaker 1: and Nick Mills with us this evening right now. It's

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Speaker 1: coming up twenty four away from six. Now, listen, paper

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Speaker 1: bags at the supermarke. Okay, here on our staff at

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Speaker 1: Newstalk ZB, we've got someone who's very upset about the

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Speaker 1: exorbitant cost of paper bags at the supermarket, so much

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Speaker 1: so that it has caused all kinds of commentary all

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Speaker 1: day and a column in the Herald and everything. Now,

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Speaker 1: what's going on is Wilworth is charging you thirty nine

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Speaker 1: cents a pop for your paper bags at the moment.

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Speaker 1: They won't tell us how much of that is a

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Speaker 1: profit that they're making. The person who is upset is,

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Speaker 1: of course, newstalg ZB early edition host Ryan Bridge. Hello, Ryan, Hey, Heather, Hell,

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Speaker 1: are y yeah?

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Speaker 2: Good?

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Speaker 1: Think you know what's your problem here? Because you've got

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Speaker 1: a lot of problems. But is your primary problem that

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Speaker 1: you think they're making money on these bags off us?

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Speaker 2: No, just that they're annoying. They're annoying, they don't carry

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Speaker 2: what you need. Have you ever tried putting, like, forget

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Speaker 2: anything else, forget eggs, forget anything. Just milk. Just put

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Speaker 2: a two letter bottle of slippery, wet milk into this thing,

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Speaker 2: and then it can't handle it. By the time you

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Speaker 2: get to your car, it's all over the floor and

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Speaker 2: you've actually got to carry it like a baby. The

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Speaker 2: number of times I've walked out like it almost like

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Speaker 2: I've got triplets. If you've got three bags, you know

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Speaker 2: you're carrying it, You're waddling through the car park. It's

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Speaker 2: like it's just mission impossible. And I know people will say,

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Speaker 2: bring your own bags, but I don't care.

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Speaker 1: Hang on, hang on, can't you buy those? You can

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Speaker 1: get the flash ones at the counter as well, you

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Speaker 1: know the ones that are like if you're at all

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Speaker 1: worth the green ones, they cost you maybe like a

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Speaker 1: dollar or so, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but then that's a dollar. Then that's three dollars

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Speaker 2: for three bags. And then I'll and then I'll forget

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Speaker 2: and I'll be back again, and that's three bucks every

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Speaker 2: time I go.

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Speaker 1: I suspect that your primary problem, because like I say,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot here. Your primary problem is you actually

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Speaker 1: want the plastic bags back.

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Speaker 2: Well, just sort of just say it, right, I sort

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Speaker 2: to do. I mean, I understand. Look, apparently there's one

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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty million plastic bags not in the ocean

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Speaker 2: because we're doing this, et cetera. But if you look

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Speaker 2: at it globally, are we ridding the oceans of plastic?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 2: Is New Zealand doing It's a little tiny bit, yes,

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Speaker 2: a slither of a slither? Is that making an odor

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Speaker 2: of difference? No? So can I have three plastic bags

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Speaker 2: when I go shopping next place?

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of with you, I've gotta be honest, I'm

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Speaker 1: kind of with you because at least the plastic bags

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Speaker 1: you could get, like did you ever buy those like

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Speaker 1: long sock things? And you can like ram them in, right,

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Speaker 1: and so you ended up with a gigantic stuffed kind

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Speaker 1: of yeah, And it was much more efficient to store

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Speaker 1: your plastic bags in that long sock than it is

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Speaker 1: to try and keep all of these awful brown paper bags.

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Speaker 1: I've got a stack of them.

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Speaker 2: Well that's the thing. And also, do you actually reuse

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Speaker 2: the because I definitely used to reuse the plastic ones. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but you use them, but you use them all sorts

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Speaker 2: of things. But I do not I don't think I've

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Speaker 2: ever reused a paper no, no, in my life. No,

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Speaker 2: and then torn to shreds.

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Speaker 1: And then what I do is sort of every few

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Speaker 1: months I take out like a whole bunch of them

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Speaker 1: and chuck them.

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Speaker 2: In the bin.

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Speaker 1: And it is a lot, Ryan, there's a lot of paper.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and the worst part, Heather, Actually, I

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Speaker 2: haven't mentioned my biggest problem.

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Speaker 1: You've got a big problem here.

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Speaker 2: I could go, they're printing little Christmas trees on these

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Speaker 2: paper bags now for Christmas, so you'll to save the planet.

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Speaker 2: We're chopping down trees to make bags and then printing

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Speaker 2: little trees on top of them. I mean, it just

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Speaker 2: makes no sense. I get that.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't understand why that was upsetting for you other

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Speaker 1: than maybe you just like ragroot.

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Speaker 2: Well. The cost, I mean that is because that's the

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Speaker 2: cheapest bag that you can buy as far as I'm aware,

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Speaker 2: the che which just.

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Speaker 1: Goes to show Ryan how much they're ripping you off.

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Speaker 1: But with a margin that they're putting on it. Right,

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Speaker 1: if they can afford to them print it, they're not

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Speaker 1: doing it that cheap?

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Speaker 2: Are they give me plastic? Give me plastic? I'm sick

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Speaker 2: of it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Ryan, appreciate it. I knew it was about

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Speaker 1: the plastic in the end, Ryan Bridge News Do. It'd

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