Honey bucket

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A honey bucket is the bucket that is used in place of a flush toilet in communities that lack a water borne sewerage system.

The honey bucket sits under a wooden frame affixed with a toilet seat lid.

Honey buckets in Alaska

Honey buckets are common in many rural villages - for example in the United States - those in the Bethel area of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in Alaska, but are found throughout the rural regions of that state.[link]

The bucket is emptied, usually about once a week, by carrying it by way of boardwalk or road to a nearby honey bucket well or hopper.

A honey bucket well is a hole in the ground capped with a raised wooden enclosure.

A hopper is a metal container, which is then removed by the city/village authority to a larger dumping area.

Honey buckets in South Africa

The Bucket system is used in rapidly developing parts of South Africa. The South African government hopes to eliminate the bucket system by 2007

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