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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 cheap, typically leaving little incentive to find more environmentally-friendly methods of walking around.

But this year, as protests across the Middle East have risen the rate of oil, the issue of finding alternative sources of fuel has actually entered sharp focus.

In a region that has one of the greatest carbon footprints in the world, one company is taking benefit of the growing pressure to find to oil. It's established the Middle East's very first plan to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing successful too, already their client-list includes McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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