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Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE

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The Middle East is a region where automobile is king and fuel is low-cost, often leaving little reward to find more environmentally-friendly methods of walking around.

But this year, as protests throughout the Middle East have pressed up the rate of oil, the of discovering alternative sources of fuel has actually entered sharp focus.

In a region that has one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet, one organization is taking advantage of the growing pressure to discover options to oil. It's set up the Middle East's very 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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