Make Your Summer More Environmentally Friendly with reef-safe sunblock. Protecting yourself from the harmful effects of the sun is important. About 14,000 tons of sunscreen wind up in our oceans every year, with the most damage being done to fragile coral reefs in Hawaii and the Caribbean.
The good news: you can use mineral sunblocks, which are reef-friendly and don’t contain the coral-bleaching chemicals oxybenzone and octinoxate.