ShareFest 2026: Donate your items during Move-Out Week, May 14-19
Drop off your items, including e-waste, at Chestnut Fields parking lot, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
ShareFest 2026: Donate your items during Move-Out Week, May 14-19
Drop off your items, including e-waste, at Chestnut Fields parking lot, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Moving out of your office, residence hall, or off-campus house? Downsizing or spring cleaning? Donate your furniture, appliances, housewares, clothing, non-perishable food, and e-waste to ShareFest during Miami's Move-Out Week May 14-19.
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.
Last year, more than 95 tons of clothing, furniture, household goods, food, and e-waste was collected and diverted from the landfill.
Donations
Check the ShareFest website for needed donations. Almost anything can be accepted, from clothing, food, and unused toiletries to furniture, small electronics, and flat screen TVs.
- Sharefest will again accept mattresses in good condition and foam mattress toppers.
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
95 tons of donations and e-waste collected during ShareFest 2025
Last year more than 95 tons of clothing, furniture, household goods, food, and e-waste was diverted from the landfill — close to 30% more than ShareFest 2024, according to Carol Michael, ShareFest board of directors president.
“This is both good news and bad news. Good news in that we so desperately want to divert EVERY still-useful piece of clothing and furniture and every granola bar and bottle of water,” Michael said in the ShareFest 2025 annual report.
“But we also want students and community members to acquire fewer things they don’t really need or extend the life out of the things they have — so an increase in the amount diverted is a bittersweet victory.”
Usable items were distributed to recipient groups throughout Butler County.
Beneficiary groups in 2025:
- GoodWill of Greater Cincinnati received nine trailers full of goods weighing more than 70 tons.
- TOPSS received 3,954 pounds of food for their clients in addition to 3,925 pounds of materials which were passed along to multiple families connected with their agency. This was “a significant increase over previous years because they did a great job of recruiting volunteers,” Michael said.
- Open Hands Pantry in Hamilton received an estimated 12 tons of food and materials to support their operation. Open Hands also continued to accept foam mattress pads which they hand out to unhoused people.
- Parkview Arms Resident Council in Oxford received more than 3,000 pounds of furniture and household goods for a number of families in their community.
- Thread Up Oxford helped divert almost 800 pounds of pillows and bedding.
- Miami’s International Student Scholars and Services Office received more than a ton of kitchen items to distribute to incoming international graduate students.
- In partnership with New Life Furniture Bank in Cincinnati, six mattresses and box springs were diverted from the landfill.
- The Butler County Success Program received nearly 3,000 pounds of materials. Social workers from schools in Lakota, Fairfield, Hamilton, Monroe, Madison, New Miami and Talawanda school districts and from Butler Tech diverted materials for their students and families.
E-waste
Cohen Recycling hauled away nine gaylords of e-waste weighing more than two tons. The Butler County Solid Waste District helped cover the $1,400 expense for the e-waste.