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Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE

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The Middle East is an area where car is king and fuel is inexpensive, often leaving little reward to more environmentally-friendly methods of walking around.

But this year, as protests across the Middle East have pressed up the rate of oil, the concern 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 organization is making the most of the growing pressure to discover alternatives to oil. It’s set up the Middle East’s very first scheme to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It’s showing profitable too, already their client-list contains McDonald’s.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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