Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE
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The Middle East is an area where is king and fuel is low-cost, typically leaving little incentive to find more environmentally-friendly methods of moving around.
But this year, as protests across the Middle East have risen the price of oil, the issue of discovering alternative sources of fuel has come into sharp focus.
In a region that has one of the greatest carbon footprints on the planet, one business is taking advantage of the growing pressure to find alternatives to oil. It's set up the Middle East's very first scheme to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing successful too, currently their client-list contains McDonald's.
Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.
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23 August 2011
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Bio-diesel made from Food in Oil-rich UAE
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