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Speaker 1: So based on the calculations that I have done on

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Speaker 1: the back of an envelope, which you probably shouldn't trust.

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Speaker 1: But according to the grocery I don't want to call

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Speaker 1: them wings, but the people the group who are upset

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Speaker 1: about the monopoly duopoly that's happening in our grocery sector,

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Speaker 1: you could save at most per person about seventy four

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Speaker 1: dollars per year if they were to have perfect competition

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Speaker 1: in the sector, which obviously would be very hard to achieve.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what else costs you eighty dollars a year.

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Speaker 1: A friend and I were chatting at the gym the

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Speaker 1: other day and he showed me his rates bill, which

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Speaker 1: he had kindly brought to the gym to encourage him

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Speaker 1: to run faster. Anyway, there's an eighty dollar targeted rate

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Speaker 1: for the food compost bin. And he said, what's that for?

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Speaker 1: And I was like, it's the green bin that's on

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Speaker 1: the street that no one uses. Then he was running

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Speaker 1: faster than I've ever seen him run on the treadmill. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: So apparently sixty to sixty five percent of us don't

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Speaker 1: use them. And if you walk down this is the

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Speaker 1: food scrapspin. They know they have them in other parts

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Speaker 1: of the country. In Auckland we've only got just recently,

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Speaker 1: so we're all getting a bit used to them. But

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Speaker 1: eighty dollars a year is what you have to pay.

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Speaker 1: And I got quite angry when I thought about because

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Speaker 1: we were talking if you're on a fixed income, eighty

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Speaker 1: dollars a year is a lot of money. If you're

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Speaker 1: a pensioner and you cannot opt out of this service,

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Speaker 1: who else can charge you for a service that you

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Speaker 1: don't want or need. What about a pensioner who's you know,

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Speaker 1: does her own or hurt his own composting in the backyard.

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Speaker 1: They can't opt out of it. They have to have

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Speaker 1: this bin and they have to pay eighty dollars per

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Speaker 1: year for the privilege. It's like your barber sending like

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Speaker 1: a barber giving a lady a beard trimmer and saying, here,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to charge you for that. I don't need it.

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Speaker 1: Oh well you have to have it? Why? Just cause?

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Speaker 1: And you know what, they're all made of plastic, these bins.

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Speaker 1: So how's that for the environment? For more from Early

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