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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 cheap, often leaving little reward to discover more environmentally-friendly methods of walking around.

But this year, as protests across the have pushed up the cost of oil, the problem of finding alternative sources of fuel has actually come into sharp focus.

In a region that has one of the greatest carbon footprints worldwide, one company is making the most of the growing pressure to discover alternatives to oil. It's established the Middle East's first plan to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing rewarding too, currently their client-list includes McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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