At just 15 years old, this entrepreneur owns a scrapyard in one of N.L.’s busiest industrial parks [Video]

Teenagers looking for their first job often lean toward fast food or big box retail stores to earn their first paycheques, but 15-year-old Ryan Easton of Mount Pearl scrapped that idea for a different one.

He opened Ryan’s Recycling in 2021 in his parent’s backyard — a business that has since exploded into an operation that befits its current location in a 10,000-square-foot storage yard, with a 700-square-foot scrapping facility, in the middle of Donovan’s Industrial Park. 

Ryan, who is in Grade 9, scraps cars, recycles appliances, metal and e-waste, and rents dumpster services. He then sells the scrap to bulk buyers. 

He picked up the skills to run his venture on YouTube. 

“People are posting videos about how to do stuff, and I kept learning …