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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 low-cost, typically leaving little incentive to more environmentally-friendly ways of moving around.

But this year, as protests across the Middle East have actually pressed up the rate of oil, the concern of finding alternative sources of fuel has actually come into sharp focus.

In an area that has among the highest carbon footprints worldwide, one business is benefiting from the growing pressure to discover alternatives to oil. It's set up the Middle East's very first scheme to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing profitable too, already their client-list consists of McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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