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 low-cost, typically leaving little reward to find more environmentally-friendly ways of walking around.

But this year, as demonstrations across the Middle East have actually risen the rate of oil, the issue of finding alternative sources of fuel has actually come into sharp focus.

In an area that has among the highest carbon footprints worldwide, one organization is benefiting from the growing pressure to discover options to oil. It's set up the Middle East's very first scheme to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's proving lucrative too, already their client-list consists of McDonald's.

reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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