Digital Lifelines takes the devices you retire and gives them a second life — one that benefits our community, the environment, and your business.
Three steps. Prepaid boxes. Nothing to manage.
A phone comes off the books and goes into a drawer, onto a pallet, or into a bin. Very few are recycled properly, and almost none reach anyone who still needs one.
The device still works — Digital Lifelines is built for the other 78%.
Sources: Global E-waste Monitor 2024, ITU/UNITAR (data year 2022) — unitar.org/.../global-e-waste-monitor-2024. Enterprise figures: Blancco 2026 State of Data Sanitization (survey of 1,460 IT, cybersecurity, compliance and sustainability leaders at large regulated organizations across North America, Europe and APAC); unreturned-equipment value per employee.
The same phone reaches a young person, stays out of a landfill, and gives your business something it can put in a report. One retirement, three outcomes, all of them documented.
Kids Connect, a registered 501(c)(3), takes the devices you retire and gets them to young people who need them.
Learn more about Kids ConnectDevices stay in service longer. What can't be reused is recycled through certified partners. Counted device by device, reported once a year.
See how it's countedSecure, documented device retirement — with a sustainability story attached that you didn't have to build. Recover value on equipment that would otherwise be written off.
Learn more about our approachA Kids Connect program that turns the phones you retire into learning tools for visually impaired children in rural India, where about a fifth of the world's blind population lives and braille literacy sits near one percent. This is what a second life looks like, in their own footage.
Footage courtesy of Light of Letters. See the full video gallery at lightofletters.org →
Three steps, once a year. You give us a number and release the devices; we hand back one verified page showing where every device went.
Any smartphone or tablet you retire — one device or ten thousand. A rough annual number is enough to start.
Signed out of iCloud or a Google account and cleared from Apple DEP or your MDM — both are required — then into prepaid boxes. No wipe facility to build, no capex to approve.
One page showing where every device went, and how many reached a child — verified from serial-level records.
Those three steps are your side. Underneath, every device runs the same audited path — each stage owned by a named party, so no number is taken on trust.
You release the devices you're retiring. Sakon owns the relationship and one simple eligibility rule — enough to scale from one device to ten thousand.
Each device is registered by serial number and data-destroyed to ISO/R2 standards — the proof enterprise buyers need, with no facility to build and zero capex.
Devices are graded, cleaned and reboxed, then sent to the best destination — placement, reuse, or certified recycling. Every route is counted.
One page, issued to you each year. The five numbers land here — counted from serial-level records, the loop closed and the proof in hand.
Intake to receipt — every step auditable, owned by the right party.
Pick a rough annual volume and how much you'd route to nonprofit placement. The receipt updates live.
This is an illustrative example, not a quote or a guarantee. Modeled (†) figures use placeholder rates — average device weight and CO₂e avoided are to be confirmed with Belmont Trading, and final language here is pending review from Belmont and legal. CO₂e is avoided emissions, reported separately from scope 1, 2 and 3.
Sakon manages the telecom cloud and device lifecycle for global enterprises — what gets bought, deployed, supported, and eventually retired. We built Digital Lifelines for that last step, because it is the one nobody had a good answer for.
We already know what a company retires, when, and how much. Turning that into documented environmental and community outcomes is the part worth doing well.
“The most valuable thing an enterprise can do with a retired device is prove where it went.”
Sakon's device stewardship program, run on an annual cycle with a published ambition of 1M devices by 2030.
We own the customer relationship, the eligibility rule, the count, and the Impact Receipt issued to you each year.
Belmont registers and erases every device. Kids Connect, a registered 501(c)(3), receives what you route to placement.
A single company can recycle a phone. It takes a coalition to change a life with it — the partners who wipe and refurbish, the nonprofits who place devices, and the customers whose retired fleets start it all.
Secure data destruction to ISO/R2 standards, documented chain of custody, and responsible recycling of what can’t be reused — an audit-defensible backbone at the serial number level.
The registered 501(c)(3) that receives every device you route to placement — refurbishing it and getting it to a young person who needs one.
A Kids Connect program — turns refurbished phones into accessible learning tools for visually impaired students in rural India.
Digital Lifelines works with community organizations that get devices into the hands of young people who need them. If that is what you do, we want to hear from you.
Talk to us about a partnershipWhether you have devices to retire or young people to reach, one conversation gets it moving.