Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE

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The Middle East is a region where cars and truck is king and fuel is inexpensive, typically leaving little incentive to discover more environmentally-friendly methods of moving around.

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

In a region that has among the greatest carbon footprints in the world, one service is benefiting from the growing pressure to find alternatives to oil. It's established the very first scheme to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing lucrative 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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