A healthy environment leads to healthy citizens. A clean environment is essential for human health and well-being.
The WHO says "Environmental health addresses all the physical, chemical, and biological factors external to a person, and all the related factors impacting behaviours. It encompasses the assessment and control of those environmental factors that can potentially affect health. It is targeted towards preventing disease and creating health-supportive environments. This definition excludes behaviour not related to environment, as well as behaviour related to the social and cultural environment, and genetics." The main health impacts are related to ambient air pollution and poor water quality.

What you can do to stay healthy and environmental friendly:

• Do not burn the waste. Burning the waste is very harmful to your health and the environment. It can increase the risk of heart disease, aggravate respiratory ailments such as asthma and emphysema, and cause rashes, nausea, or headaches. Burning of waste also produces harmful quantities of dioxins, a group of highly toxic chemicals that settle on crops and in our waterways where they eventually wind up in our food and affect our health.
• Throw the waste into the container not beside or on the street, to avoid luring insects and animals.
• Clean green! Stop buying household cleaners that are potentially toxic to both you and the environment.
• Share your ride to work! By having more people using one vehicle, carpooling reduces each person's travel costs such as fuel costs, tolls, and the stress of driving and protects the environment.
• Only print when you really need to. If you do, print on double sided paper. Nearly all printers emitt high levels of ultrafine toner particles, which were potentially as hazardous as cigarette smoke.
• Eat organic and local food! Organic food exposes consumers to fewer pesticides. Organic farming has been demonstrated to have less environmental impact than conventional approaches.