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Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE

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The Middle East is a region where automobile is king and fuel is inexpensive, frequently leaving little incentive to discover more environmentally-friendly methods of walking around.

But this year, as protests across the Middle East have pressed up the price of oil, the problem of discovering alternative sources of fuel has actually entered sharp focus.

In a region that has one of the greatest carbon footprints worldwide, one company is making the most of the growing pressure to discover alternatives to oil. It's set up the Middle East's first plan 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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