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Honey Bucket Supplying Portable Toilets to Winter Olympics

Aired January 29, 2002 - 06:57   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: And now to the Winter Olympics where a company called Honey Bucket is finding a golden opportunity.

Reporter Lisa Verch of CNN affiliate KEZI reports.

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LISA VERCH, KEZI-TV REPORTER (voice-over): It's a dirty business, portable toilets, a plastic hut propped over a tank full of you know what. But don't kid yourself, not every porta potty is the same, and an Oregon company's wiped out the competition proving it.

JASON PERRY, HONEY BUCKETS: Actually, it's the people that clean them that make them special. Our drivers are probably some of the best. They're kind of (ph) -- I have young drivers that they clean them and they have a passion for it.

VERCH: That's right, you heard the man, they're passionate about their potties. So much so that someone from the Olympic Committee used one last year and asked them to submit a bid to the Winter Olympics.

(on camera): And these just aren't any portable toilets going to the Olympic Games, these are fully accessorized. Check this out, you got sanitary seat covers, antibacterial hand cleaner, three roles of toilet paper, a venting tube and yes, that's a urinal, not to be mistaken for a purse holder.

(voice-over): Honey Bucket sent 2,500 of those to the Olympic Games plus hundreds more that are handicap accessible, not to mention the toilets for the high rollers equipped with running water, lights and heat all solar powered.

PERRY: They'll be in the VIP areas where like the leaders of the countries will be staying and the major corporate executives and stuff like that.

VERCH: And these honey buckets have to endure some of the roughest conditions and remain safe on the slopes like subzero temperatures and 80-mile-an-hour winds.

PERRY: We put bolts in them and we've ran like tie downs that you'll see holding trailers and whatnot down. We're doing the same thing for each unit. VERCH: Honey Buckets expects to pump nearly two million gallons of waste before the Olympics are over. That's nearly as much as they pumped for all of Oregon last year. It's not glamorous, but when you got to go, you'll be glad they're there.

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COSTELLO: Company is called Honey Bucket. I don't care, if they don't flush -- anyway.

That report is from Lisa Verch of CNN affiliate KEZI, thanks.

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