1 Bio-diesel made from Food in Oil-rich UAE
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The Middle East is a region where cars and truck is king and fuel is inexpensive, often leaving little reward to find more environmentally-friendly ways of walking around.

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

In a region that has one of the highest carbon footprints in the world, one service is benefiting from the growing pressure to discover alternatives to oil. It's established the Middle East's very first plan to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing profitable too, already their client-list contains McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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