ShareFest: Donate your items during Move-Out Week, May 15-20
Drop off your items, including e-waste, at Chestnut Fields Parking Lot, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
ShareFest: Donate your items during Move-Out Week, May 15-20
Moving out? Spring cleaning? Donate your furniture, appliances, housewares, clothing, non-perishable food, and e-waste to ShareFest during Miami's Move-Out Week May 15-20.
ShareFest is a service and environmental nonprofit corporation dedicated to the collection and redistribution of items donated by Miami students and the Oxford community at the end of the academic year. Collected items benefit residents in need and social service agencies throughout the region.
Donations
Check the ShareFest website for needed donations. Almost anything can be accepted, from food and unused toiletries to furniture and small electronics.
Drop off your e-waste:
Butler County Recycling & Solid Waste partners with Cohen Recycling to offer this service. Accepted items:
- Anything with a plug
- Anything with a battery
- Batteries
Lamps, glass or light bulbs are not accepted in the e-waste bin.
Sharefest cannot accept:
Bed pillows
Filing cabinets
Sofa beds
items in poor condition, with missing parts or not working
Anything needing reassembly
Construction materials
Items infested with bedbugs
73 tons of donations and e-waste collected during ShareFest 2024
Usable items were distributed to recipient groups throughout Butler County and saved tons of items from the landfill.
Beneficiary groups 2024:
- Goodwill received seven trailers full of goods.
- TOPSS (Talawanda Oxford Pantry and Social Services) received 3,286 pounds of food plus 2,114 pounds of materials which were passed along to several families connected with the Family Resource Center.
- Open Hands Pantry in Hamilton received an estimated 10.5 tons of food and materials to support their operation. Open Hands also accepted about 50 foam mattress pads which would have otherwise gone to the landfill.
- Parkview Arms Resident Council in Oxford received approximately 2,000 pounds of furniture and household goods for a number of families in their community.
- Butler County Success received 3,300 pounds of materials for students and families from several schools across Butler County.
- ThreadUp Oxford received 1,262 pounds of clothing, furniture, and hangers.
- Miami University’s International Student Scholars Services Office received about 700 pounds of kitchen items to distribute to incoming international graduate students.
- In its first effort to divert mattresses from the landfill, Sharefest partnered with New Life Furniture Bank in Cincinnati which took 18 mattresses.
E-waste collected in 2024:
Cohen Recycling collected eight Gaylord boxes of e-waste and three buckets of batteries, for an estimated 141 pounds of mixed batteries; 1,747 pounds mixed e-waste; 449 pounds tube TVs, and 47 pounds of lead acid batteries.
