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TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: A t-shirt saying "I'm crazy about", produced by the owner of the Mini Bar Ignazio D'Andria for a fundraising to oncology specialists in Taranto, is seen here at the Mini Bar in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent the ILVA steel mill in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.

Taranto, a formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.

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TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: A t-shirt saying "I'm crazy about", produced by the owner of the Mini Bar Ignazio D'Andria for a fundraising to oncology specialists in Taranto, is seen here at the Mini Bar in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent the ILVA steel mill in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br /> <br /> Taranto, a formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.