Ryan Bridge: Why are we paying $80 a year for a bin no one uses?

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Sep 4, 2024 · 2m · transcript

According to the group who are upset about the monopoly-duopoly that's happening in our grocery sector, you could save, at most per person, about $74 per year. That's if they were to have perfect competition in the sector, which obviously would be very hard to achieve.

Do you know what else costs you $80 a year?

A friend and I were chatting at the gym the other day and he showed me his rates bill, which he had kindly brought to the gym to encourage him to run faster.

There's an $80 targeted rate for the food compost bin. He said, what's that for? And I was like, it's the green bin that's on…