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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 inexpensive, frequently leaving little incentive to discover more environmentally-friendly methods of moving.

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

In a region that has one of the greatest carbon footprints in the world, one company is taking benefit of the growing pressure to discover alternatives to oil. It's established the Middle East's first plan to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's proving successful too, already their client-list of McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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