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 pushed up the cost 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 worldwide, one company is taking benefit of the growing pressure to find alternatives to oil. It’s set up the Middle East’s very first plan to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It’s showing successful too, currently their client-list contains McDonald’s.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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