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Apple confirms it will no longer use leather for new Apple accessories, starting today.
(www.macrumors.com)
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They're doing a woven material. The article I saw said the rumor was using recycled nylon and polyester in some manner, but that was a rumor and I don't know if it's confirmed. But you could absolutely make a decent, reasonably rugged phone case with something in approximately the neighborhood of canvas.
Stopping trying to be leather when it sucked was needed. If you're not doing a relatively high quality grade of leather, it can't handle the abuse, and what Apple had recently wasn't that.
I mean, polyester and nylon are also petroleum-based so will eventually degrade into microplastics as well...