Speaking to Lao Dong on July 8, Mr. To Hoai Dan - Chairman of the Board of Members of Cong Ly Construction - Trade - Tourism Company Limited - the unit operating the Ca Mau City Waste Treatment Plant - said: "I affirm that the closure is not a requirement for the government. The more the factory operates, the more it loses.
This loss is clearly identified by the agencies. The company is trying to follow the requirements of the authorities in preparing documents to present a new price list. Currently, it is continuing to adjust according to the requirements of the professional sector of Ca Mau province".
This is not the first time the Ca Mau City Waste Treatment Plant has closed. Since its operation, this factory has been closed at least 4 times.
That was in 2014, 2018, 2022 and 2025.
During the temporary suspension of waste receipt in 2022, the unit maintained and repaired 13 items with more than 40 categories of related technical equipment.
That is the occasion of the Lunar New Year 2023, the Ca Mau provincial government must urgently direct relevant functional units and local authorities in the province in many different ways to organize waste reception, collection and treatment at the land of the management unit, ensuring that there is no environmental pollution when the factory is closed for 90 days (from December 4, 2022) to maintain equipment.
Previously, in 2018, this factory was temporarily suspended for equipment maintenance, which also caused congestion in waste, polluting the environment in many places.
Most recently, as Lao Dong reported, on June 16, 2025, the only waste treatment plant in Ca Mau announced its closure due to a loss of hundreds of billions of VND due to low waste treatment service prices and inability to operate.
To solve the problem of garbage when the Ca Mau City Waste Treatment Plant closes, the province has proposed a temporary garbage collection plan in the spirit of not letting waste congest and cause pollution among the people. In the city area, temporarily use the road to the factory to collect garbage.
Other localities have also "activated" landfills. In particular, communes of the old Thoi Binh district will gather garbage at the landfill of more than 41,700m2 in Hamlet 6 of Thoi Binh commune (old); communes of Cai Nuoc district (old) will collect garbage at 4 landfills in Hung My, Tan Hung, Cai Nuoc and Luong The Tran communes; communes of Tran Van Thoi district (old) will collect garbage at the landfill of Tran Van Thoi commune.
Similarly, communes of the old U Minh district used the landfill in Nguyen Phich commune and the landfill in Khanh Lam commune. The remaining communes of Phu Tan, Nam Can and Ngoc Hien districts (old) will collect and transport garbage to the Rach Goc town landfill (now Phan Ngoc Hien commune) for burial.
However, this is only a temporary solution. To solve the problem of waste, the authorities of Ca Mau province have promoted Cong Ly Company to soon resume the plant, while calling for investment in the field of waste treatment after the two provinces of Bac Lieu and Ca Mau were merged.
