Recycling protects our health in several ways. The materials that we do not need and wrongfully dispose of may find their way back in our households in different ways. Raw and untreated sewage emanating from industries and hotels if discharged into water bodies becomes hazardous for living organisms. Contaminated water if used for farming and cooking by communities results into waterborne diseases like pneumonia and typhoid which is common in places where water is polluted. Plastic bags also disposed openly on the environment become breeding grounds for mosquitoes. When it rains plastic bags trap water that serves as habitat for mosquito larvae which can result to malaria outbreak.