Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE

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The Middle East is a region where car is king and fuel is low-cost, often leaving little reward to discover more environmentally-friendly ways of moving around.

But this year, as demonstrations across the Middle East have actually pressed up the price of oil, the issue of finding alternative sources of fuel has entered sharp focus.

In a region that has one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet, one service is taking benefit of the growing pressure to find alternatives to oil. It's established the Middle East's very first plan to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing rewarding too, already their client-list contains .

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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