The council of the City of Berkeley find the passage of this act is necessary in order to protect and defend the health and safety of our citizens and posterity by regulating the importation, storage for incineration, treatment or storage for treatment, or transfer of hazardous wastes and requiring that any hazardous waste facility approved meet the criteria defined herein below in Section 11.50.040 and Section 11.50.050; and find that, unlike with other commodities, importation, collection, aggregation, and/or disposal of large volumes of hazardous waste (i.e. explosive, reactive, low level radioactive, and toxic waste) in a densely populated area like Berkeley, subjects the populace to unusual and significant risks to health and safety. It is not the purpose of this act to regulate facilities whose primary purpose is to recycle manufactured goods which may contain components that constitute hazardous waste. It is the intention of this act to regulate only facilities whose primary purpose is to treat, store, transfer, or dispose of imported hazardous wastes. (Ord. 6287-NS § 1 (part), 1995: Ord. 6034-NS § II, 1991)