The hospitality giant is reducing its environmental footprint while contributing to a cause in an initiative called Threadforward

Collecting the discarded religious flower petals, Help Us Green intends to curb river pollution by using the plants to make incense

Malmö Upcycling Service reuses materials like brick, glass and sheet metal to make household objects while reducing manufacturing waste

A space-saving bag from Freitag uses a thin inflatable tube instead of a metal frame

Tricia Cheeney is making a winter jacket out of 214 used plastic shopping bags, plus other upcycled products

With a stylish appearance, this backpack makes use of repurposed car materials for a unique and functional bag

HearO took tennis balls from the 2016 Wimbledon Championship and turned them into unique Bluetooth speakers

A printing company takes the leftover scraps from cotton T-shirt molds and turns them into paper for business cards

A textile workshop in Paris mixes dyes together using leftover food materials and plants

A startup company in Vancouver, Canada takes the city's discarded chopsticks and turns them into wooden decor

Instead of cardboard, these boxes are made up of a translucent, ecologically friendly material

People for Urban Progress is an up-cycling program that tackles the waste problem of big demolitions

Presso Design adds Italian leather to coffee sacks for a rustic but luxurious laptop carrier

Southwest partners with Looptworks to upcycle seat covers into beautiful (non-travel) bags