Avis has offset more than 156,848 tonnes of CO2 since 1997 – that is equivalent to the CO2 emissions a medium car would have produced driving approx 26,141 times around the equator.

Preventing Spills and Leaks

Preventing Spills and Leaks

It’s important that we avoid fuel spills and leaks to the environment and that’s why we have brought in a number of measures to keep these to a minimum. These include:

Spills

  • We have developed Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) plans to prevent spills from storage and during fuel loading
  • Our staff are trained on SPCC plans
  • We have a spill hotline which is manned 24/7
  • Spill kits are placed by fuelling islands

Leaks

  • Our storage tanks are made from material that won’t corrode, they have overfill protection and secondary containment to prevent leaks
  • We also have a number of detection systems which spot signs of leaks quickly so we can deal with them as soon as they appear
  • All of our systems are checked regularly to make sure they are in top working order