When you think of environmental damage in graphic design, you probably think of paper, plastic and other packaging.
Ink is graphic design's dirty little secret.
Alcohol, as anyone who drank as much as I did last Saturday night knows, is a VOC, or at least is comprised of same. Printing presses are washed down and cleaned with solvents, which of course are generally alcoholic in nature. The more colours you use, the worse it gets. Printers have a number of methods at their disposal to deal with the VOC output of their plant, but their effectiveness in the broader environmental sense is questionable. The printing press can be cleaned afterward with a water-based cleaner.