Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE

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The Middle East is an area where vehicle is king and fuel is low-cost, frequently leaving little incentive to find more environmentally-friendly ways of moving around.

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

In an area that has one of the highest carbon footprints in the world, one service is benefiting from the growing pressure to discover options to oil. It's established the Middle East's first scheme to recycle cooking oil into . It's proving successful too, already their client-list contains McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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