The North London Waste Authority, Mura Technology Limited and Suez, which invests in or builds the necessary new recycling infrastructure, provided us with written evidence explaining that they need more certainty, clarity and granularity about the Department’s long-term policies on resource and waste management if they are to meet deadlines, targets and make investment decisions.41 Without this there is a risk of 35 C&AG’s Report, para 13, 1.9, 1.20–1.21 36 GRWR0032; C&AG’s Report, para 13 37 Q 57; Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs, Guidance on applying the Waste Hierarchy, June 2011 38 Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs, The waste prevention programme for England: Maximising Resources, Minimising Waste, July 2023 39 Qq 39–41 40 GRWR0007 41 GRWR0006; GRWR0012; GRWR0015; C&AG’s Report, para 20 Government’s programme of waste reforms 15 insufficient recycling facilities to deal with the increased volumes of recycling arising from the reforms. If new infrastructure is not developed there is a risk that the packaging will be disposed of by incineration or landfill, or exported for other countries to deal with.42 This also increases the risk of illegal export of waste overseas, which we examined as part of our session on Government actions to combat waste crime.43