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

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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.^*

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

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

Sewerage | Toilets