Bernice Antoine: Transforming waste into opportunity
Shannon Roddel
“My ultimate goal is to establish the first sustainable waste management company in my country of Trinidad and Tobago.”
For Notre Dame senior Bernice Antoine, that goal didn’t originate in a classroom — it began at dawn in a rural Indian village, collecting waste by hand.
As a first-year student, Antoine spent two months working in a fully sustainable ecovillage through NDBridge. Under the guidance of monks, she helped develop composting systems and worked with a biogas chamber using anaerobic..