Current budget restrictions now make it even more imperative that pavements are kept watertight and operational for as long as possible between scheduled maintenance interventions. Colas South Africa has the ultimate cold sealing and patch repair...
Waste workers in the eThekwini Municipality’s Outer West Region have once again downed tools despite the City’s ultimatum aimed at getting waste collection services up and running after recent strike action. The municipality on Tuesday announced...
Electronic waste rose to a record 45 million tonnes worldwide in 2016, a United Nations (UN) backed study showed recently. According to the joint report by the UN University, the International Telecommunication Union, and the International Solid...
Scientists at the University of Dundee have discovered that E. coli bacteria could play a crucial role in capturing and storing carbon dioxide. Professor Frank Sargent and colleagues at the University of Dundee’s School of Life Sciences, working...
Environmentally-friendly packaging is becoming increasingly essential according to a leading data and analytics company. GlobalData says it expects demand for environmentally-friendly packaging to continue to increase in response to heightened...
The Department of Water and Sanitation has denounced the sale of private borehole water after it says it was alerted to a trend of people selling water from their private boreholes. The Department says this recent practice of the secondary trade of...
The eThekwini Municipality is investigating the installation of safety barriers on some of its bridges in an urgent bid to stop the scourge of stones and bricks being thrown at vehicles from overhead bridges. The decision comes after two children...
The Competition Commission has given three major construction firms the green light to enter into economic alliances with black-owned firms recommending that the deals be approved by the Competition Tribunal. Large construction firm Raubex is...
The Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) has issued the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) with a Prohibition Directive for operating under conditions which might be a threat to safe railway operations, which lead to the collision at the...
Site preparation for the Monwabisi desalination plant has kicked off in Cape Town as the City prepares projects to bring additional water supply online to combat the unprecedented drought. The Monwabisi desalination plant is one of seven projects...
