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Bio-diesel made from Food in Oil-rich UAE
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Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE

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

But this year, as protests throughout the Middle East have actually pressed up the rate of oil, the issue 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 taking advantage of the growing pressure to discover options to oil. It's the Middle East's first plan to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing rewarding too, already their client-list contains McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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