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Best recycling initiative: Helping the unemployed get back to work
Community recyclers Kerbside did what they do best and cleaned up in the Best Recycling Initiative award, sponsored by HBOS, at the Courier's Community and Environment ceremony.
Huge cheers rang out around Berties, Elland, as a team of more than a dozen staff and board members collected the prize after judges said the firm was "absolutely loved everywhere they collect."
Chris Haddock, of Kerbside, said: "In the last few months we have truly come to understand how much this community values the work Kerbside does - and this is just further confirmation of that.
"Hearing everyone cheering was magical, it makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.
"The award belongs to the people of Calderdale who have shown so much enthusiasm for us.
"It's just very moving - and what it has shown us, if we needed showing, is that this is project worth fighting for."
The judges praised the firm, which recycles glass and clothing around the Upper Calder Valley, for getting supposedly unemployable people into work.
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