Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE

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

But this year, as protests across the Middle East have actually risen the price 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 in the world, one business is benefiting from 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 successful too, currently their contains McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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