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Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE

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The Middle East is an area where cars and truck is king and fuel is low-cost, typically leaving little reward to find more environmentally-friendly ways of walking around.

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

In an area that has one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet, one service is taking advantage of the growing pressure to discover alternatives to oil. It's set up the very first plan to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing profitable too, already their client-list contains McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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