Paintballs/environment

[TheDecorator]

Fellow paintballers,

I wish to conduct a study on the contents of various different types of paintball (for my final university project).

It appears that most paintballs are largely harmless to the environment.
I understand that this is not the case for all paintballs However. If anyone has any information that could help me find any previous studies, or suspects a particular brand to contain something harmful ( paintballs may be very brightly coloured or have an unusual smell for example) - I would be very grateful for your feedback!

Cheers All!
K.

 

[Little Jon]

err....... tomahawk paintballs have an acrylic or china type base shell so if they dont hit anything u can go back and pcik them up, but if not they are left everywhere and clutter the place.

unusual smells.......... victory competiton use a gelatin shell and are a shiny metallicy blue and have a bright orange fill, the fill also has a citrus smell added in and when 1000 balls have been fired at a target range it kinda reeks
cant think of much more, ill ask at work for you

 

[guppy]

i believe some sites ban Zap Chronic as it leaves a white residue on the trees etc which the forestry ppl don't like! Maybe someone else, maybe a site owner, will expand on this...

 

[TheDecorator]

Thank you both for your replies.

I was unable to locate a supplier of 'victory competiton'... I will keep looking. If anyone comes across any other dodgy paint please don't hesitate to comment.

right, now... to buy an impulse.

 

[Little Jon]

well im marshalling tommorow so i shall ask my boss who supplies it to him and give you my answer

 

[TheDecorator]

sweeet - cheers mate - where u marshalling @?

 

[Little Jon]

a place a few miles from me called
Paintball Extreme

 

[Little Jon]

also, i think one type of zap paint does this, ive used it, strong stuff. it is a dual tone(colour) ball with another dual tone layer on top so its really hard, for hard htting guns, hurts a helluva lot more but hey, that why we play.....eerrr any way i think the shell is some sort of plastic although i may be wrong, dont quote me on this

 

[jonhaley]

I'd be interested to know what you come up with.
I studied woodland management for my MSc and have always been interested in the impact paintball has as a whole. Will you put your dissertaion on the web for us?

 

[TheDecorator]

I'd love to, but the way I'm heading it looks like I may never get there!

I'm going to phone every site I can think of on monday to see if they'll send me samples of their site paint - maybe I should put out a wanted advert for "****e paint"...?

I'm all up for it but I just can't find any sources of all these paints people talk about :-(

I am starting a paintball site (web) - I think I'll publish the results there: I could put up a listing of all "green" sites... Do you think sites would send me their paint If I give my word not to slate them if they are found to dish out bad paint?

surely site runners would be interested in the ecology of their site?