No one wants to use glass jars from home and most people think you're strange for favoring such an inconvenient idea so readily. Plastics didn't need to push disposables that hard, they were already better.
Outside of not getting to see whales what about the loss of gray whales would mage life harder? If anything it seems like the reason no one cares is because of how inconsequential the problems are to society outside of being pleasant to witness.