Living alone I find it difficult to finish all the food that I buy. A study by the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) "found that £9bn of avoidable food waste was disposed of in England and Wales each year". Every time I throw food away I’m frustrated by the thought that it will decompose in a landfill surrounded by toxic materials, ruining any potential for returning valuable nutrients back to the soil.

Hence, the Urban Grazing foodbox was an experiment I made while exploring ways to achieve zero food waste. Basically, I hung the box out of my window with excess food in it.

The first day I recorded any movement around it with a webcam to see how people would interact with it. Quite a few people were curious, and seemed to enjoy the discreet spectacle. I offered something easy; clementines and chocolate biscuits. However, in the following days my offerings progressed into things that aren't instantly consumable such as lemons and onions, which were also gone by the time I came home in the evenings.

The box has the potential to become an informal model for food waste reduction, and could expand into a network for sharing excess food.