I once rinsed out a few tuna cans years ago. I think it took at least ten gallons of water to rinse out as many cans, so I knew that couldn't be good. We save newspapers to take to an auction house for people to wrap their purchases in when they buy them. After that, they can recycle them if they want to.
I go out of my way to not recycle. It's my small way of fighting the machine.