Exclusive | Here are NYCs worst litterers the generation, gender may not surprise you

Gen Z men are leaving their mark on the city — and leaving their trash.The city’s worst litterers are men from the Bronx and Queens between the ages of 18-34 — even though the litterbugs claim immense pride in their home city, a new survey found.The age group — which also includes some litterbugs of the Millennial generation — admitted their messy ways and were dubbed “chronic litterers” in a survey by the Sanitation Foundation shared with The Post.Their excuse: there wasn’t a trash can close enough or they were in too much of a hurry, the survey said.Even though they admitted they were contributing too the problem, those same litterers view their fellow trash tossers as “lazy” and claim they’re the ones who give the Big Apple a bad reputation.Roughly eight in 10 New Yorkers believe the city has a trash problem — but 38% of people admit to tossing their garbage in the street every once in a while, the survey said.Only 29% claim they have “never littered” before, according to the results.Women 45 and above were least likely to say they were litterbugs.Nearly 85% of everyone surveyed — both litterers and not — said they were proud to be New Yorkers.“It’s depressing,” said Anthony, a Queens resident in his 80s who has to clean up other people’s litter from his own Whitestone property between two and four times a week.“I pay high taxes and it’s sort of disappointing.

It gets you upset also to see that nobody does nothing about it.”Brooklyn has the most litter and trash complaints of all five boroughs, notching over 30,000 complaints with 311 since January 2024.Queens followed closely behind with 20,900 complaints, while Manhattan — sometimes maligned as the borough most plagued by litter — had 17,000.The Bronx racked up 13,200 complaints in the past 17 months while Staten Island had just 6,700.Carlos Amaya of Astoria theorized that some participants were fudging the truth — as a 32-year-old, Amaya said he and other pe...