This year plenty of people celebrated Earth Day by cleaning up their neighborhood during the annual Dartmouth Green Up Day on Easter weekend.

So many showed up, in fact, that the town’s Department of Public Works ran out of the specially-designated purple bags for the clean up effort.

They have since replenished the bag supply and are now planning to extend the event through next weekend as well.

Green Up Day organizer Peter Durant was happy with the numbers. “It’s been a great success,” he said, adding that there was “definitely an uptick in turnout this year.”

Participant Ian McGonnigal braved the rain to clean up his street, Lucy Little Road, on both Saturday and Sunday.

He gathered around 25 bags of trash.

“There were lots of nip bottles,” he said, adding that it wasn’t just people throwing things out of car windows.

“People dump things,” he said. “Yesterday I pulled a TV out of the woods.”

McGonnigal said that he’s happy to help clean up the community, but that he also has a selfish motive. “I like to walk down my road, and I’ve been disgusted by all the garbage.”

According to McGonnigal, the extension to Green Up Day was good news — but he also noted that there are things people can do every day of the year, like bringing a bag while walking your dog to pick up trash along the way.

He added that the town could also do a better job of enforcing litter laws.

But overall, McGonnigal was upbeat. “It’s good to make a little bit of an impact,” he said.