In the summer of 2008, the images of the waste emergency in Naples went around the world. At that time I had been working for six months on my research thesis, a journalistic investigation entitled “The other side of the eco-mafia”. It was my first experience as an investigative journalist, but I quickly realized it wouldn't be my last. The problems that my country was going through in those years, in fact, reawakened in me the passion for investigative journalism. The thesis was an exciting challenge. It gave me the opportunity to conduct in-depth research over several months, collect and organize large amounts of material, and think about how to deliver complex content to a large audience. I focused on the most significant issues: illegality in the "cement cycle" and the illicit trafficking and disposal of waste. I met witnesses and protagonists of the eco-mafia, I studied procedural documents, recordings of wiretaps and searches. Step by step I understood the mechanisms behind the swirl of billions that was suffocating Campania under a thick layer of concrete. In the end, driving and wa...