Triangle Ecycling: Saving Dolphins Every Day

E-waste found contaminating dolphin brains: ‘This is a wake-up call’

Toxic chemicals in dolphins and porpoises seem to originate mostly from television and computer screens

Vishwam Sankaran

Friday 27 February 2026 07:55 GMT

Chemicals from household electronics are accumulating in the brains of dolphins and porpoises in the Indo-Pacific, according to a new study that calls for urgent regulation to cut e-waste pollution.

Liquid crystal monomers, or LCMs, are chemical components of laptop, television and smartphone screens that control how light passes through the displays. While they are known to be persistent pollutants due to the ubiquitous nature of these electronic devices, their threat to marine life isn’t well understood. READ MORE…

Triangle Ecycling keeps 150 TONS of ewaste out of the environment each year. And that doesn’t include the thousands of corporate laptops and server equipment we refurbish and donate or sell every year.