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Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE

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

But this year, as protests across the Middle East have pushed up the cost of oil, the concern of finding alternative sources of fuel has entered sharp focus.

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

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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