Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE

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The Middle East is an area where cars and truck is king and fuel is low-cost, frequently leaving little incentive to discover more environmentally-friendly ways of moving around.

But this year, as protests throughout the Middle East have actually pressed up the cost of oil, the issue of discovering alternative sources of fuel has actually come into sharp focus.

In a region that has one of the highest on the planet, one company is making the most of the growing pressure to find options to oil. It's established the Middle East's very first scheme to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing successful too, currently their client-list consists of McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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