Blas Cymru / Taste Wales Conference 2024

Visit the Sustainability Zone at Blas Cymru / Taste Wales for the opportunity of one to one surgeries to help improve sustainable practices for your food and drink business. Further details below… 

Sustainability Cluster

The Sustainability Cluster brings together producers, academia and Welsh Government to collaboratively work on improving food & drink sustainability. Find out how the cluster can help you improve the sustainability of your business and the support available for Welsh Food & Drink producers.

B-Corp

Becoming a Certified B Corporation is one of the most rigorous, comprehensive and rewarding processes your business will undertake. Find out how to get started, learn more about the certification process and the support available to help achieve certification.

Carbon Reduction

Understand the new Carbon Reduction Plan Pilot Programme and the steps involved in helping you to create a carbon reduction plan for your business. This programme will help you to baseline your carbon emissions and develop a phased plan to reach net zero.

Health & Diet

The Nutri-Wales team can offer advice and expertise on developing healthy and sustainable food ingredients and products. They can provide access to industry, academic and public health partners for collaborative projects to stimulate innovation and business growth.

Training & Skills

Meet the team from the Food & Drink Wales Skills Programme and understand the sustainability and decarbonisation training and the funding that is available for Welsh food and drink producers.

Climate Adaptation

Join the BIC-Innovation team to understand the latest outputs of their Climate Adaptation work and how to undertake risk assessments to protect your product sourcing and improve your business resilience.

Packaging & Labelling

Understand the latest packaging and labelling regulations and how these will impact your business moving forward. Learn about the Deposit Return Scheme, Extended Producer Responsibility Scheme and what Eco-Labelling could look like in the future.

How data can make your business more sustainable

Let the experts from AMRC Cymru talk to you about how to use the data that you generate to make your business more sustainable. From understanding your waste, to adding sensors into everyday production and improving automation the team will be able to help you find the right solutions.

Panel discussion

In addition to activities in the Sustainability Zone, there will also be an on stage panel discussion in the afternoon focusing on how the food and drink industry can halve the environmental impacts of all packaging systems by 2030.
Panel members will include Mark Grant, Sustainability Cluster Lead; Sarah Haynes IGD Head of Sustainability; and Dr Rosie Oretti, Founder & Director, Grounds For Good.