Here in Australia we pride ourselves on our world-class coffee. The only problem is that pang of guilt every time we throw one of those plastic-lined disposable cups into the bin – adding up to about a billion of them every year. So whenever a business comes up with an innovative way to reduce café waste, we’re all interested.

A variety of Australian startups are connecting customers and farms directly – removing the middleman and eliminating food waste in the process.

Drastically cutting methane emissions in the near-term might be our only hope of keeping heating below 1.5°C