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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, frequently leaving little incentive to find more environmentally-friendly ways of moving.

But this year, as protests across the Middle East have actually pressed up the price 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 in the world, one organization is making the most of the growing pressure to find alternatives to oil. It's set up the 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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