Bio-diesel 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 discover more environmentally-friendly methods of walking around.
But this year, as demonstrations across the Middle East have actually risen the rate of oil, the concern of finding alternative sources of fuel has actually come into sharp focus.
In an area that has one of the highest carbon footprints worldwide, one company is taking advantage of the growing pressure to discover options to oil. It's set up the Middle East's first plan to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing successful too, already their client-list consists of McDonald's.
Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.
Special report: The Technology of Business
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23 August 2011
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