Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE

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The Middle East is a region where automobile is king and fuel is inexpensive, typically leaving little incentive to discover more environmentally-friendly methods of moving around.

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

In a region that has among the highest carbon footprints in the world, one service is making the most of the growing pressure to discover options to oil. It's established the Middle East's very first scheme to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing lucrative too, already their client-list contains .

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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