Bio-diesel made from Food in Oil-rich UAE

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 cheap, often leaving little reward to discover more environmentally-friendly ways of moving around.

But this year, as protests across the Middle East have pressed up the cost of oil, the concern of discovering alternative sources of fuel has actually come into sharp focus.

In a region that has one of the greatest carbon footprints in the world, one company is benefiting from the growing pressure to discover options to oil. It's set up the Middle East's very first scheme to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's proving successful too, already their client-list includes McDonald's.

Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.