Old office chairs are being transformed into hard-shell backpacks and bicycle panniers as part of a strange new recycling project.
An entrepreneurial student has created a product called 'Rest' which uses backrests from discarded office chairs to form durable, waterproof and impact-proof bags.
The sustainable solution converts the back of the chairs into a large bag which can be worn or mounted onto a bicycle.
More than 810,000 office chairs go to waste every year in the UK and Rest was designed in an attempt to slash the number which need to go to waste tips.
Thomas Howell-Jones, a Product Design Student at Birmingham City University, who created Rest, came up with the idea after collecting discarded office chairs in a bid to find a sustainable use for them.
After dismantling several chairs he found that the backs could be used as a protective container and after experimenting with various other products he successfully converted chairs of different shapes and sizes into uniform bags and bicycle panniers.