Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE

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The Middle East is a region where vehicle is king and fuel is inexpensive, typically leaving little incentive to find more environmentally-friendly methods of moving around.

But this year, as demonstrations across the Middle East have pressed up the cost of oil, the issue of finding alternative sources of fuel has come into sharp focus.

In a region that has one of the greatest carbon footprints in the world, one business is making the most of the growing pressure to find alternatives to oil. It's set up the Middle East's very first scheme to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing rewarding too, already their client-list consists of McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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