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 cheap, often leaving little incentive to find more environmentally-friendly methods of walking around.

But this year, as demonstrations throughout the Middle East have pushed up the price of oil, the issue of finding alternative sources of fuel has come into sharp focus.

In a region that has among the greatest carbon footprints in the world, one business is making the most of the growing pressure to discover alternatives to oil. It's set up the Middle East's first plan to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing too, already their client-list includes McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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