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Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE

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The is a region where cars and truck is king and fuel is cheap, typically leaving little reward to discover more environmentally-friendly methods of walking around.

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

In a region that has one of the highest carbon footprints worldwide, one company is taking advantage 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 proving lucrative too, already their client-list contains McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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