Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE

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The Middle East is a region where vehicle is king and fuel is low-cost, typically leaving little incentive to find more environmentally-friendly methods of moving around.

But this year, as protests throughout the Middle East have actually risen the price of oil, the problem of discovering alternative sources of fuel has actually come into sharp focus.

In an area that has among the greatest carbon footprints on the planet, one organization is benefiting from the growing pressure to discover options to oil. It's the Middle East's very first plan to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing profitable too, currently their client-list contains McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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