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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 inexpensive, often leaving little incentive to discover more environmentally-friendly ways of walking around.

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

In an area that has one of the greatest carbon footprints in the world, one service is making the most of the growing pressure to find options to oil. It's set up the Middle East's very first plan to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing profitable too, already their client-list contains McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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