The small town of Amendolara both defies and embodies Calabria's woes, victim of steep unemployment but held together by a generally well-run and corruption-free local government.

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As Italy goes to the polls, Naples' trash crisis has become the face of Italian public life. But in the town of Amendolara, photographer Davide Monteleone discovers that there is a better way.

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