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Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE

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The Middle East is an area where car is king and fuel is cheap, frequently leaving little incentive to find more environmentally-friendly methods of moving.

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

In a region that has one of the greatest carbon footprints on the planet, one organization is benefiting from the growing pressure to discover alternatives to oil. It's set up the Middle East's first plan to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing rewarding too, already their client-list contains McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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