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Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE

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The Middle East is a region where is king and fuel is low-cost, often leaving little reward to find more environmentally-friendly methods of walking around.

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

In an area that has among the highest carbon footprints in the world, one company 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 showing profitable too, currently their client-list contains McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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