Asahi Breweries, Ltd. announced on September 30 that it postponed the new sale of the beer with the PET bottle container .
The company that paid attention convenience and fashionably of the container was announcing sales of the new item in July.
However, a lot of groups including environmental group "Green peas Japan" and "Nationwide network in which it aimed at the achievement of the extended producer responsibility and the deposit refund system" strongly opposed it , saying that "Led to the deterioration of global warming and the garbage problem" and "Move backward to the establishment of the recycling society".