Bobby was shortlisted in the 2009 YBI Entrepreneur of the
Year competition.
More on the competition.
"To see some of my ambitions
become a reality has been the most rewarding part of business."
Bobby Mitchell
Bobby Mitchell:
Pure Services, Scotland
Supported by: The Prince's Scottish Youth
Business Trust
Motor sports to IT recycling is not the most obvious career
path, but it’s the one that Bobby Mitchell selected - and with
great success so far.
A chance opportunity led Bobby, 22, to abandon his boyhood love
of motor racing and instead form Pure Services, which has now
become a well-established business in its chosen field of data
destruction and recycling in central Scotland.
The process employed by Pure Services enables over 90% of the
component of the disposed item to be recycled and re-used, meaning
that just a fraction of the original item is sent to landfill.
The business provides secure and environmentally friendly
solutions for the recycling and re-use of equipment and the
certified destruction of sensitive data. Clients include
accountants, lawyers and professional organisations.
Coming from a farming background and having seen the impact of
landfill near to his home in East Lothian, Bobby is very conscious
of the value of both re-using and recycling everything
possible.
Pure Services is also currently investigating partners for a
scheme that would see them send fully functioning computers that
have been recycled for use in Africa.
Bobby only uses suppliers which have sound ethical and
environmental policies, hoping that his principles will influence
other businesses.
Bobby aims to grow Pure Services into Scotland’s premier
provider of IT recycling and secure data destruction. The company
is on track to more than double sales by the end of the year.
More about the Entrepreneur of the
Year Award 2009