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Bio-diesel made from food in UAE

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

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

In an area that has among the greatest carbon footprints on the planet, one service is benefiting from the growing pressure to find alternatives to oil. It's set up the Middle East's first plan to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing successful too, currently their client-list contains McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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