Photocatalysis currently remains a series of key challenges, such as difficult recovery of powder, low efficiency, etc, which grievously impede the practical application of powdery photocatalysts in environmental remediation and renewable energy generation. In this work, we integrate a flexible and porous organic matrix polyurethane foam (PUF) with nanosheet-array-like bismuth oxyhalides (BiOX) as efficient and stable photocatalysts via a facile dipping-hydrolysis means. The BiOX/PUF foam photocatalysts uncover profoundly promoted photocatalytic performance for treating multiform organic contaminants ranging from azo dye, phenol to antibiotic, in comparison with the powdery counterparts. These foam photocatalysts also display enhanced photocatalytic activity toward water splitting into H-2 evolution. Significantly, they show absorbing performance in many aspects, including high stability, easy recovery, good recycling and excellent controllability and adaptability, strongly boding for their promising practical prospect. The study may not only advance a series of practical photocatalysts for environmental control and renewable energy generation, but also have the potential to be extended to development of other high-performance photocatalytic materials. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.