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Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE

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The Middle East is an area where vehicle 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 throughout the Middle East have pushed up the rate of oil, the issue of discovering alternative sources of fuel has entered sharp focus.

In a region that has one of the greatest carbon footprints worldwide, one service is taking benefit 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, currently their client-list contains .

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.

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23 August 2011

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