New Yorkers are making a big stink about the city not picking up their trash.

They’ve called in 16,936 complaints of missed pickups to the city’s 311 hotline from Jan. 1 to Aug. 1 — a surge of 26 percent from 13,489 over the same period last year, and 32 percent more than the 12,784 gripes in the same period in 2014, according to city records.

And the number of complaints was a massive 76 percent more than the 9,598 called in by disgusted denizens five years ago.

The complaints, like festering refuse, really piled up in the summer months. July saw the highest number of complaints, 3,194, followed by June (2,903), while February (1,485) had the fewest.

Of the missed-collection calls so far this year, 6,782 were for recycled materials, up from 5,383 in 2015, and 4,733 in 2014, records show.

Queens residents had the most problems with rotting rubbish. They phoned in more than a third of the missed-pickup complaints, 6,435, followed by Brooklyn (5,267), Staten Island (2,779), Manhattan (1,385) and the Bronx (1,070), according to 311 records.

Residents of Ozone Park, Queens, who phoned in 573 complaints in the first seven months of the year, said sanitation workers aren’t doing their jobs.

“Every week is the same thing,” said Remphel Gangaram, 45, who lives on 114th Street. “Every time they did this, they pick up the regular garbage and leave the recycling. It’s been going on for months and months.”

A Sutter Avenue resident complained, “They missed the pickup yesterday and the trash will usually sit out two to three days. The smell gets worse this time of year because of the heat.

“I can tell you it’s worse in Queens than Brooklyn because Brooklyn has more pickup days,” she added.

Sanitation Department spokeswoman Kathy Dawkins said winter snowstorms and people slow to adjust to changes in collection schedules led to more missed collections.

The city reported meeting 96 percent of garbage-cleanup requests within five days of receiving a complaint from the city’s hotline, according to the Mayor’s Management Report.

And while complaints of missed pickups soared, so did the cost of garbage collection.

Such taxpayer costs rose to $449 per ton in fiscal year 2015, compared to $422 per ton in FY 2014 and $392 per ton in FY 2013, records show.

Overtime for sanitation workers also rose — up 21 percent from $108 million in FY 2013 to $131 million in FY 2015.

Yet the amount of trash the Sanitation Department actually disposed of dipped 3 percent from 3.26 million tons in FY 2013 to 3.18 million in FY 2015, records show.