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, often leaving little reward to find more environmentally-friendly ways of walking around.

But this year, as demonstrations throughout 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 an area that has among the highest on the planet, one company is benefiting from the growing pressure to find options to oil. It’s established the Middle East’s first scheme to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It’s showing rewarding too, already their client-list includes McDonald’s.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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