Metro and amNewYork readers are a bunch of slobs who toss the free newspapers on the tracks when they are done reading them, an MTA board member griped on Monday as he proposed banning the dailies from being handed out in the subway system.

Agency board member Charles G. Moerdler said that the transit system has been inundated with extra trash because of the papers and that the litter has contributed to an increase in track fires.

Moerdler made the comments during a discussion to renew the papers’ contracts with the MTA and after a safety report revealed that small track fires increased by 7.2 percent in the period from February 2015 to January 2016 compared with a year earlier.

The MTA has been testing out a program in eight stations for two years where it got rid of unattended paper piles, as well as newspaper hawkers, and instead organized the papers in bins.

The contract allows the MTA to cancel with 30 days notice.

The MTA collects no money for allowing the papers in its system, agency officials said.

The agency instead gets advertising space in both papers.