Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE

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The Middle East is a region where car is king and fuel is low-cost, typically leaving little incentive to discover more environmentally-friendly ways of moving around.

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

In a region that has among the greatest worldwide, one service is benefiting from the growing pressure to find alternatives to oil. It's established the Middle East's very first scheme to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing profitable too, already their client-list consists of McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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