A West Virginia company which handles food, oil and grease waste from businesses such as restaurants is expanding its processing infrastructure to handle as much as 15 million gallons annually.

Greasezilla, which is part of Downey Ridge Environment Co., is opening its second companywide processing facility in Ashland, Virginia. The new hub is aimed at keeping fats, oils and grease (FOG) pollution out of wastewater, which if unmitigated can clog sewer systems and damage property. It can handle up to 15 million gallons annually.

The Ashland expansion is part of Greasezilla’s plan to build out 30 processing hubs nationwide. The company’s first build-own-operate hub is in Knoxville, Tennessee.

“Cities have spent years working to keep FOG out of sewer systems, but the infrastructure for managing what gets captured hasn’t kept pace,” said Brian Levine, executive vice president of Greasezilla, in a statement. “Our model is to invest the capital, build and operate a national network of regional processing centers, taking the burden off municipalities while giving haulers a fast, reliable place to unload.”

Greasezilla’s technology reportedly separates the brown grease from waste and wastewater and then finds partners which can repurpose it into biofuels. The latter supply chain includes a framework deal with bp.

The processing hubs would receive the FOG from restaurants, municipalities and other partners, making it more efficient for licensed haulers. Greasezilla also licenses its technology to about 24 other facilities across the country.

“We’ve spent years perfecting and deploying our core technology,” Levine said. “Now we’re scaling it as a nationwide infrastructure platform. Ashland demonstrates how we can build regional capacity around market demands and replicate that model across the country.”

So-called “fatbergs” such as congealed blogs of grease in industrial and public water systems can cause about $25 billion in damages annually, according to wastewater authorities such as Eastern Ohio Regional Wastewater Authority (EORWA).