Gadot prioritizes sustainability over comfort when it comes to doing press for her movies.

The Wonder Woman 1984 actress, who recently became the new face of Smartwater, tries to stay environmentally conscious when she has to fly around the world promoting her hit movies. It’s part of how she tries to model a better and healthier life for her daughters Alma, 8, and Maya, 2.

“I think that being a role model and actually doing the things and showing them how it should be done is a big thing, because then it’s being incorporated into their life,” she tells PEOPLE in the latest issue, on stands now. “So we make sure we recycle and make sure not to use plastic bags, not to travel with [private] jets when we’re doing press for movies, we make sure to give back as much as we can back to the world that we’re living in.”

Gadot, 34, says it’s all part of her constant struggle to bring good habits into her home with husband Yaron Varsano, 45, while she balances work and motherhood.

“I always try to find balance in my life and I think that being a mother and a working woman and traveling the world — it’s a struggle,” she says.