Industrial, commercial and institutional waste accounts for 65% of the garbage going to landfills, but the report says there is "very little" data about its composition or sources.
Back-garden bonfires of domestic waste account for nearly a fifth of the cancer-causing dioxins that are pumped into the atmosphere and seep into the ground, it discovered.
Among major renewable energy media utilized for power generation in the region, biomass and renewable waste accounted for nearly 64% of the primary production in the renewable sector in 2013.