A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including the Environment Agency’s new CEO, Brighton Fashion Week and a new structure for Smurfit Kappa.

The Joint Trade Association has submitted a proposal to operate a waste electrical and electronic equipment compliance fee mechanism for 2015.

A skip hire operator from Anglesey has been sentenced to four months in prison, suspended for 12 months, along with a £400,000 confiscation order for the unlawful operation of a waste transfer station.

More than 13,000 jobs could be created in Northern Ireland by 2030 if the country moved to a ‘bolder, transformative’ circular economy, according to a report released today.

A study by the nova-Institute has concluded that natural products such as apricot kernels, beeswax and bio-based and biodegradable polymers could replace microplastics in cosmetics.

An initiative to provide people across the UK with a way to recycle cigarette butts and other smoking waste has been launched by recycling company TerraCycle today.

Fourteen people have been arrested across the North East as part of an investigation into a £78-million landfill tax fraud.

The operational assets of a landfill waste recycling centre will be sold in an online auction after a High Court judgment on debt owed by its owners.

Permission for a giant incineration plant developed by FCC Environment has been unanimously granted permission by Midlothian Council.

Waste management companies and councils must establish appropriate models to share the risk of volatile markets, says a new report published by Resources & Waste UK.