Khyrie Olds said he's tired of trash littering his neighborhood. So the 16-year-old Green Run resident decided to do something about it Saturday. He was one of nearly 80 people from the neighborhood who volunteered to pick up trash as part of Clean the Bay Day. Their efforts were part of a statewide event to remove debris from the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.

For Green Run, that meant cleaning about three miles of canal, said Chandler Scarborough, past president of the neighborhood homes association.

The group ended up with two truckloads of trash, including a muck-covered shopping cart and a crumpled bicycle, he said.

"We've got some fish, we've got some birds, we've got some Doritos," Khyrie said, as several volunteers compared their findings. "We've got a table. Man, I've got a bike."

The turnout was the largest so far for Green Run, which has participated for three years, Scarborough said. The success was largely due to participation by the community's Spartan youth football players.

"You have to do community service to play on the team," said coach David Nieves. "It's a good way to help the kids and do something positive in the community at the same time."

Dressed in their football jerseys Saturday morning, the team wielded bright orange garbage bags, pool skimmers and trash-pickers to remove refuse from the canal banks.

"I just hate to see our community like this," said 13-year-old Spartan team member Lance Price. "I'd rather have a clean community than an extra hour of sleep."

The 21st annual Clean the Bay Day was a success statewide, said coordinator Sharon Smith. According to a preliminary count, roughly 5,150 volunteers, mostly from Hampton Roads, removed 153,650 pounds of debris from 327 miles of waterway, she said.

The refuse consisted of everything from plastic water bottles to discarded furniture to cigarette butts.

There were about 170 cleanup sites, including sites in Norfolk, Chesapeake, Newport News, Hampton, Suffolk and Gloucester County, according to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation Web site.

"We were very, very pleased," Smith said.

"More and more people are concerned about our waterways and they're coming out and doing something about it."