Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE
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The Middle East is an area where car is king and fuel is low-cost, often leaving little reward to discover more environmentally-friendly ways 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 entered into sharp focus.
In an area that has one of the highest carbon footprints worldwide, one business is benefiting from the growing pressure to find options to oil. It's established the Middle East's very first plan to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's showing rewarding too, already their client-list contains McDonald's.
Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.
Special report: The Technology of Business
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Business
23 August 2011
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