About Us

IoMT Recycling Solutions was founded by Melanie J. Haga in 2018 in Franklin, NJ. A division of Back Thru The Future (BTTF) Technology Disposal, IoMT was created to serve the needs of customers for secure and compliant medical equipment recycling and destruction across the United States. We recognized that we had developed valuable tracking and recycling processes for BTTF that directly addressed challenges facing medical device manufacturers, medical providers, and end users, but we needed to speak their language. IoMT Recycling Solutions’ processes and documentation have been specialized to address the unique industry requirements of the medical device industry.

Specialized Medical Device Recycling and Destruction Services

At IoMT Recycling Solutions, we offer an end-of-life solution for the secure and compliant destruction and recycling for medical devices, parts, and accessories. Our key focus is compliance, protecting sensitive brand information and data, and medical device end of life processing. 

Our team has the capability to travel across the country to your facility to pick up your obsolete, broken, and end of life medical devices and equipment. Our team provides white glove, professional service and will pick up your equipment, crate it safely, process it at our facility to ensure it is properly destroyed and recycled following compliance laws, and will provide a full report to you, including a detailed chain of custody, for your records. 

We specialize in working with distinct industries within the healthcare sector to properly audit, destroy and recycle end of life medical devices including:

  • Medical device manufacturers
  • Medical device distributors
  • Medical care providers (including hospitals, health care providers, labs, and clinics)
  • Medical device consultants
  • End users 

Our Diversity & Inclusion Mission

We are committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace, seeking partners and vendors with like-minded values, and objectives. We are certified as both a “Woman’s Owned Business” and SBA qualified Small Business.  We are always striving to provide access and fair and equitable opportunity for minority-owned, woman-owned, LGBT owned, veteran or service-disabled veteran owned, disability-owned, and SBA-defined small and disadvantaged businesses, and to strengthen our relationship in our community to better develop, attract, support and champion diversity & inclusion.

Our Commitment to Compliance and Data Protection

With over 35 years of experience in our industry, we have the experience to ensure meticulous attention to detail to protect your information, ensuring auditability and traceability at every stage. By maintaining clear, accurate records and leveraging advanced systems, we provide a transparent process that tracks inputs, outputs, and changes seamlessly. This approach not only boosts efficiency but also ensures compliance, accountability, and risk management across all operations.

We are proud to maintain various certifications and memberships to ensure quality including:

  • Certified as a R2v3 Responsible Recycling Standard
  • NAID AAA Certified Recycling Facility & Onsite Mobile Destruction Provider
  • Certified NJ DEP Licensed EPA recycling facility
  • Certified ISO 14001:2015 environmental standard
  • Certified ISO 9001:2015
  • Certified ISO 45001: 2018
  • Certified Woman Owned Business / WBENC (Women Business Enterprise National Council)
  • Active member of RAPS (Regulatory Affairs Professional Society)

Our Mission Statement

Protecting our clients and partners from environmental, data security and brand misuse liabilities through secure and auditable electronic equipment and data media destruction/recycling services.

History

2002

The State of NJ classified the disposal of electronics as a form of hazardous waste under the Federal EPA’s Universal Waste Rule. The Federal EPA Universal Waste regulations require that anyone processing, recycling or disposing of Universal Waste be a registered Universal Waste “destination” facility.  BTTF was one of the first electronic recycling companies in the US to become a Federal EPA registered and NJ State DEP licensed Universal Waste electronics destination facility.  In NJ this license is called a Class D Universal Waste Consumer Electronics processing permit. All 50 States have now adopted the Federal EPA Universal Waste handling regulations. Because of that, we have the authority to issue legally valid environmental compliance certificates in all 50 states. 

2005

Prior to 2005, we used software overwrite tools to sanitize incoming hard drives before reselling them – which is something that many “recyclers” still do today. In 2005, however, the HIPAA data privacy provisions took effect in the health services industry. 

Several of our large hospital clients notified us that they would require indemnification from data breach risks associated with our sanitization of hard drives found in their old computers. We recognized that software overwrite tools were not 100% reliable and as hard drive capacities grow the process would take longer and longer to perform. Destroying the hard drive is the only 100% safe solution to the indemnification requirement. 

We became the first company in the US to offer the shredding of hard drives as a stand-alone data security service.

2006

We became the first electronic recycling company in the US to be certified as a NAID AAA secure hard drive shredding facility.

2007

The NJ DEP ruled that electronic devices could  only  be shred by NJ DEP Class D permitted facility and that onsite shredding at a customer location was not permitted within the State of NJ. With this restriction in place, we invested in a fleet of vans and portable degaussers that allowed us to provide onsite hard drive sanitization and secure transport back to our plant based shredding operation. 

2011

The State of NJ passed an E-Waste law banning the disposal of electronics from landfills and requiring that they be recycled by an authorized electronic recycling company.  Currently 24 other states have passed similar bills requiring the recycling of electronics be done by qualified responsible recyclers.  We are 1 of 7 currently authorized electronically recycling facilities in NJ and our status as a Federal EPA registered Universal Waste destination facility qualifies us as a recognized responsible recycler in 24 other states.   

2012

We championed the support of the NJ DEP to allow an amendment to the Class D permit that would allow onsite shredding of hard drives and electronics in NJ.  

2016

The State of NJ passed a law allowing non NJ DEP licensed shredders to provide onsite hard drive shredding for “data security” purposes. These non-licensed shredders must be NAID AAA certified and must deliver the shredded material to a Class D licensed facility for recycling and disposal purposes.  

Because of our strong environmental regulatory status as an electronics shredder, we have established a dominant market position in NJ with over a 70% market share of banks and hospitals. The strict and highly prescriptive data privacy regulations in these two industries have allowed us to evolve a set of specific data asset handling practices that are extremely well documented and meet and exceed the specific industry audit requirements for data destruction. 

2017

We became certified for the ISO 14001:2015 environmental standard. Qualification is an intense management and administrative effort that requires a significant organizational commitment to a rigorous process and the auditable maintenance of that process.  Our ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 9001:2015 certifications provide us with the professional management framework that allows us to stay current with environmental regulations and industry standards. 

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