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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, 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 price of oil, the concern of finding alternative sources of fuel has entered sharp focus.

In a region that has one of the highest carbon footprints worldwide, one organization is making the most of the growing pressure to discover options to oil. It's the Middle East's very first scheme to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing profitable too, currently their client-list includes McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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