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A man lights a flame at dusk as part of a religious tradition. Dashasumedha ghat on the Ganges is central to the ghats that run all along the river in Varanasi. Religious tourists bath and send votive candles out into the river that are full of plastic.

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Plastic or Planet? National Geographic magazine 3/2018
A man lights a flame at dusk as part of a religious tradition. Dashasumedha ghat on the Ganges is central to the ghats that run all along the river in Varanasi. Religious tourists bath and send votive candles out into the river that are full of plastic.