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Re:Facial scrubs polluting Great Lakes with plastic by Groxx on Friday August 02, 2013 @03:35PM (#6149145)
You mean like these?

>over-fished, ... polluted the living hell out of them

Zebra mussels you might be able to claim damage the lake, but the complaints against them are certainly primarily based on nuisance, so I'll exclude them.

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Re:Facial scrubs polluting Great Lakes with plastic by wooster on Friday August 02, 2013 @07:31PM (#6150313) 

  Since zebra mussels became established in Lake Erie, 
  water clarity has increased from 6 inches to 30 feet 
  in some areas. … One drastic impact of the zebra mussel
  invasion is the near extinction of native American 
  unionid clams in Lake St. Clair and in the western 
  basin of Lake Erie.
http://www.glsc.usgs.gov/_files/factsheets/2000-6%20Zebra%20...
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