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Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE

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The Middle East is a region where car is king and fuel is low-cost, often leaving little reward to discover more environmentally-friendly ways of walking around.

But this year, as protests across the Middle East have actually risen the cost of oil, the problem of finding alternative sources of fuel has come into sharp focus.

In an area that has among the greatest carbon footprints worldwide, one organization is taking benefit of the growing pressure to find alternatives to oil. It's established the Middle East's very first scheme to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing profitable 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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