| IoT | Internet of Things |
| MSW | Municipal Solid Waste |
| CNN | Convolutional Neural Network |
| LSTM | Long Short-Term Memory |
| CPS | Cyber-Physical System |
| UAV | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |
| PPFL | Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning |
| XAI | Explainable Artificial Intelligence |
| SHAP | SHapley Additive exPlanations |
| VLM | Vision-Language Model |
| ViT | Vision Transformer |
| RSM | Response Surface Methodology |
| GA | Genetic Algorithm |
| DRL | Deep Reinforcement Learning |
| DQN | Deep Q-Learning Network |
| MLP | Multilayer Perceptron |
| RGB | Red, Green, and Blue |
| LiDAR | Light Detection and Ranging |
| GHG | Greenhouse Gas |
| AUC | Area Under the Curve |
| mAP | Mean Average Precision |