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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 inexpensive, often leaving little incentive to find more environmentally-friendly methods of moving around.

But this year, as protests throughout the Middle East have pushed up the cost of oil, the concern of discovering alternative sources of fuel has come into sharp focus.

In a region that has one of the greatest carbon footprints in the world, one organization is benefiting from 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 too, already their client-list contains McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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