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Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE

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The Middle East is a region where automobile is king and fuel is cheap, often leaving little incentive to find more environmentally-friendly ways of walking around.

But this year, as protests throughout the Middle East have risen the rate of oil, the problem of discovering alternative sources of fuel has entered sharp focus.

In an area that has one of the greatest carbon footprints in the world, one company is taking benefit of the growing pressure to find options to oil. It's set up the Middle East's very first scheme to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing rewarding too, already their client-list contains McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

Special report: The Technology of Business

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23 August 2011

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