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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 inexpensive, often leaving little incentive to discover more environmentally-friendly ways of walking around.

But this year, as demonstrations throughout the Middle East have actually risen the rate of oil, the issue of discovering alternative sources of fuel has come into sharp focus.

In an area that has among the highest carbon footprints worldwide, one company is benefiting from the growing pressure to discover alternatives to oil. It's set up the Middle East's very first scheme to oil into biodiesel. It's showing profitable too, currently their client-list consists of McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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