Waste Minimization Strategy for Sustainable Interior Design

Abstract

Recently, interior design has experienced a dramatic change with the incorporation of strategies which emphasizes the designing of environmentally sustainable and healthy spaces for people to live in, work in and play in. The awareness of environmental accountability has sparked the necessity for environmentally sustainable interior design practice. Society at large is starting to recognize the link between spaces, people and the community. In Kenya there are no clear waste minimization strategies that interior designers can adopt in their practices in order to practice sustainable interior design. The study aimed to establish the most appropriate waste minimization strategy used by interior designers and to propose a waste minimization strategy that can be adopted by interior designers to attain sustainable interior design. The literature was gathered through desktop research, which entailed document analysis from published online academic journals and books. The study established that interior designers have a great role to play in the reduction of waste produced as they are the party assigned to recommend materials and processes to be used. Moreover, there are numerous waste minimization strategies that can be used to achieve sustainable interior design. The study concluded that assessment tools should be adopted by interior designers as they pose a lot of advantages compared to other waste minimization strategies. Assessment tool assess, indorse and increase sustainable growth in the construction industry, and also offer a scheme that gives a wide-range understanding of sustainability through the process of data examination, assessment, and disparity.