Yeah, it's unfortunate that we "regular people" are pretty much powerless when it comes to the carbon footprint from the transportation. We can't really do much other than to hope that someone improves the technology to make is less heavy on the environment.

But you're right: once we are at our location we can do stuff to make it better in terms of pollution and emission. A lot of people are very irresponsible when it comes to recycling when visiting other countries, and this is certainly not good for anyone.