SHIFT has allocated the needed funds for both Black Liberation Month 2025 and 2026. The activities throughout this month aim to uphold sustainability through a social justice lens by creating and implementing programming that centers our most marginalized population on campus, those being Black-identified students. Through a month of events and engagement opportunities, we hope to spotlight and uplift our Black-identified student population by keeping the Black experience as the foundation of the ideas we put forward in this project.

The E-Cycler Expansion Project seeks to improve recycling rates, reduce waste contamination and support the university’s waste reduction goals. It calls for the purchase of eight Max-R brand E-Cycler bins, in which students, faculty and staff can deposit universal waste items like batteries and electronic devices. Cal Poly Humboldt’s new Zero Waste Action Plan (ZWAP) identifies the need to expand consumer electronics recycling to meet the increasing amount of e-waste generated on campus by adding additional collection bins.