Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE

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The Middle East is an area where car is king and fuel is cheap, often leaving little incentive to discover more environmentally-friendly ways of moving.

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

In an area that has among the greatest carbon footprints in the world, one business is benefiting from the growing pressure to discover alternatives to oil. It's set up the first plan to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's proving successful too, already their client-list includes McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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