Five-gallon bucket

[2] At the end of the 20th century, about 170 million five-gallon bucket were produced annually in the United States and Canada.

These small businesses usually utilize trash removal services, so the emptied buckets are thrown into their dumpsters and then into landfills.

Comically, it has been noted that no farm pick-up has fewer than two five gallon buckets in the back performing various utilitarian needs.

Seats, tool caddies, hydroponic gardens, chamberpots, "street" drums, livestock feeders, and more have all been adapted from five gallon buckets.

Due to the risk of small children drowning a pictorial warning label is often impressed into the side of a five-gallon bucket.

Small toddlers can topple in head first and not have the strength or weight to tip the bucket, designed for stability, over.