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Plastic waste in the Ganges River at Varanasi, India adds to sewage, animal and industrial waste and pesticides making it one of the planet’s most polluted rivers. Dashasumedha ghat on the Ganges is central to the ghats that run all along the river. 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
Plastic waste in the Ganges River at Varanasi, India adds to sewage, animal and industrial waste and pesticides making it one of the planet’s most polluted rivers. Dashasumedha ghat on the Ganges is central to the ghats that run all along the river. Religious tourists bath and send votive candles out into the river that are full of plastic.