A Nashville company has bought a Chattanooga site and opened a facility for receiving brown waste grease from restaurants and recycling it into industrial fuel.
“It reduces the carbon footprint,” said Chris Parker, Onsite Environmental’s national account manager. “The Environmental Protection Agency loves it. It’s a second-generation fuel.”
He said the facility is similar to the one the company runs in Knoxville, where it processes between 600,000 and 750,000 gallons of food service waste a month.
“We’re shooting for Knoxville,” Parker said. “The Chattanooga market has just as much potential — if not more so.”
Onsite has bought a 4-acre tract on North Hawthorne Street, said Jeff Jennings of NAI Charter Real Estate. The parcel, which sold for $650,000, has a nearly 40,000-square-foot building from which Onsite is operating, he said.