PETA has a list of leather and fur alternatives on their site and the descriptions such as "synthetic leather", "pleather", "vegan leather", "nonleather", "faux leather" and straight-out "synthetic".  These are not leather products but are they eco-friendly? 

We've been using animal hides practically forever, but the way we produce leather today isn't the way the cavemen did it.  A lot of chemicals and heavy metals are used in the typical tanning process, but there are alternatives. 

The leather anupa uses ...