Canberra’s Grind to Ground uses coffee to reduce landfill while giving people with disabilities work

There is something special going on with Canberrans’ used coffee.

For the past five months, tonnes of ground beans have been turned into a nutrient-rich soil enhancer by a local non-for-profit called Grind to Ground.

But what started as a classroom project at Canberra’s Institute of Technology (CIT), has flourished into a social enterprise that has reduced the ACT’s landfill by 50 tonnes and put more than 30 people with disabilities into work.

So how did a school assignment grow to this?

One of its…