Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE

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The Middle East is a region where cars and truck is king and fuel is cheap, often leaving little incentive to find more environmentally-friendly methods of moving around.

But this year, as demonstrations across the have actually risen the rate of oil, the concern of discovering alternative sources of fuel has actually come into sharp focus.

In a region that has one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet, one service 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 successful too, already their client-list contains McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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