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 low-cost, often leaving little reward to discover more environmentally-friendly methods of walking around.

But this year, as protests across the have actually risen the price of oil, the problem of discovering alternative sources of fuel has come into sharp focus.

In an area that has among the greatest carbon footprints on the planet, one organization is taking benefit of the growing pressure to discover alternatives to oil. It's established the Middle East's first scheme to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing lucrative too, currently their client-list contains McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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