Metro

Trash talk from mob

Speak directly into the trash can, please.

The garbage carter who helped the feds bust a dozen mobsters — including alleged extortion ringleader Carmine “Papa Smurf” Franco — made 530 days worth of secret recordings, a prosecutor revealed in court yesterday.

The “consensual recordings” range in length from phone calls of just a few minutes to a marathon, 10-hour gab-fest, said Manhattan federal prosecutor Arianna Berg.

Berg didn’t divulge the identity of the “cooperating witness” who turned the tables on the mob after getting shaken down for a share of his profits.

Sources have told The Post that the informant ran M&C Waste Services in Westchester.

All of the defendants, who the feds say include both “soldiers” and “associates” of the Genovese, Luchese and Gambino crime families, pleaded not guilty yesterday.