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Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE

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The Middle East is an area where automobile is king and fuel is cheap, often leaving little incentive to find more environmentally-friendly ways of moving.

But this year, as protests throughout the Middle East have actually risen the price of oil, the issue of discovering alternative sources of fuel has come into sharp focus.

In a region that has among the highest carbon footprints in the world, one service is making the most of the growing pressure to find to oil. It's established the Middle East's very first scheme to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing successful too, currently their client-list consists of McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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