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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 don't want to call them winges,

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Speaker 1: but the people the group who are upset about the

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Speaker 1: monopoly duopoly that's happening in our grocery sector, you could

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Speaker 1: save at most per person about seventy four dollars per

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Speaker 1: year if they were to have perfect competition in the sector,

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Speaker 1: which obviously would be very hard to achieve. Do you

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: kindly brought to the gym to encourage him to run faster. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: there's an eighty dollar targeted rate for the food compost bin.

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Speaker 1: And he said what's that for? And I was like,

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Speaker 1: it's the green bin that's on the street that no

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Speaker 1: one uses. Then he was running faster than I've ever

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Speaker 1: seen him run on the treadmill. Anyway, So apparently sixty

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Speaker 1: to sixty five percent of us don't use them. And

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Speaker 1: if you walk down this is the food scrapspin. They

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Speaker 1: know they have them in other parts of the country.

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Speaker 1: In Auckland we've only got just recently, so we're all

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Speaker 1: getting a bit used to them. But eighty dollars a

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Speaker 1: year is what you have to pay. And I got

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Speaker 1: quite angry when I thought about, because we were talking

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Speaker 1: if you're on a fixed income, eighty dollars a year

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Speaker 1: is a lot of money. If you're a pensioner and

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Speaker 1: you cannot opt out of this service, who else can

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Speaker 1: charge you for a service that you don't want or need.

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Speaker 1: What about a pensioner who's you know, does her own

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Speaker 1: or hurt his own composting in the backyard. They can't

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Speaker 1: opt out of it. They have to have this bin

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Speaker 1: and they have to pay eighty dollars per year for

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

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Speaker 1: giving a lady a bed trimmer and saying, here, I'm

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Speaker 1: 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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