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Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE

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The is a region where cars and truck is king and fuel is low-cost, often leaving little incentive to discover more environmentally-friendly ways of moving around.

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

In an area that has among the greatest carbon footprints on the planet, one service 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 rewarding too, already their client-list contains McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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