| Acronym | Meaning |
| MSWLF | Municipal Solid Waste Landfill |
| POS | Points-on-a-sphere (repulsion Potential Model |
| SMCM | Spatial Multimedia Compartmental Model |
| EDTGA | Electrodynamic Thermogravimetric Analysis |
| HDTBPB | Hexadecyltributylphosphonium Bromide |
| ACD | Annealed Cold Drawn |
| CEGB | Central Electricity Generating Board |
| CVTST | Canonical Variational Transition-state Theory |
| MSWI | Municipal Solid Waste Incinerator(s) |
| PERI | Pharmaceutical Education And Research Institute |