This is the situation currently unfolding at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where regulators have until March 31 to comply with a consent judgment by responding to a petition by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) to ban the use of the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in food packaging, food containers and other materials likely to be ingested or to come into contact with food.

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Clorox, which uses plastics for bleach containers and its Glad trash bags, plans to offset higher materials costs by hiking prices in January on 40% of products.

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Mrs Hunt uses materials including drink cans, takeaway containers, computer parts and babies' dummies.

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Kotnik imagines that there will soon be more sustainable building materials available on the market and that this may ultimately diminish the popularity or need for his beloved containers.

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