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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 cheap, typically leaving little incentive to discover more environmentally-friendly methods of moving around.

But this year, as demonstrations across the have risen the rate of oil, the problem of discovering alternative sources of fuel has actually come into sharp focus.

In an area that has among the greatest carbon footprints worldwide, one business is benefiting from the growing pressure to discover options to oil. It's set up the Middle East's very first scheme to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's proving successful too, already their client-list contains McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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