Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE

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The Middle East is an area where cars and truck is king and fuel is cheap, often leaving little incentive to discover more environmentally-friendly ways of walking around.

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

In a region that has among the greatest carbon footprints on the planet, one business is making the most of the growing pressure to discover options to oil. It's established the Middle East's first scheme to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing rewarding too, currently their client-list contains .

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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