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, frequently leaving little incentive to discover more environmentally-friendly ways of moving.
But this year, as protests throughout the Middle East have pushed up the cost of oil, the issue of finding alternative sources of fuel has come into sharp focus.
In a region that has one of the greatest in the world, one company is making the most of the growing pressure to find alternatives to oil. It's set up the Middle East's first scheme to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing successful 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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Bio-diesel made from Food in Oil-rich UAE
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