The BNY Mellon Corporation has implement several policies to comply with the standards of environmentally sustainable business practices. BNY Mellon has created the Sustainable Real Estate program to continuously work towards improving the sustainability of their office spaces. They have also committed to reducing the amount of waste used in their offices, and are working toward their goal of cutting their waste headed to landfills, with about 71 percent of waste redirected form landfills in 2014. In 2014 they also reduced the amount of paper used in the workplace by 52 percent, and they hope to continuously work to reduce paper used as well. The BNY Mellon organization has numerous other initiatives planned to help improve the environmental sustainability of their corporation.