Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE

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

But this year, as demonstrations throughout the Middle East have actually pushed up the price of oil, the issue of discovering alternative sources of fuel has actually entered into .

In a region that has one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet, one service is taking benefit of the growing pressure to discover alternatives to oil. It's established the Middle East's very first scheme to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing successful too, currently their client-list includes McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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