Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE

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The Middle East is an area where automobile is king and fuel is low-cost, often leaving little incentive to find more environmentally-friendly methods of moving.

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

In a region that has one of the greatest carbon footprints in the world, one organization is taking advantage of the growing pressure to find alternatives to oil. It's established the Middle East's very first plan to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing profitable too, already their client-list contains McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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