made from food in oil-rich UAE

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The Middle East is an area where automobile is king and fuel is low-cost, typically leaving little reward to find more environmentally-friendly methods of moving.

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

In an area that has one of the greatest carbon footprints on the planet, one organization is benefiting from the growing pressure to discover options to oil. It's established the Middle East's first plan to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing successful too, already their client-list includes McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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