But if you want to buy sparkling water from Dasani’s new vending machine, you won’t get a plastic bottle. In fact, you can’t buy the water at all unless you supply your own bottle.

Many more bottles are bought through vending machines. “We wanted to be one of the universities taking a stance on this issue of bottled water on campus,” said Robert Kelly, Loyola’s vice ...

Las Vegas startup S2C Global Systems and Fort Wayne, Ind., systems integrator and contract manufacturer Northern Apex have codeveloped an RFID-enabled vending machine able to dispense five-gallon ...

This vending machine looks very similar to any other. But when you use it to buy a drink, your beverage comes in a reusable bottle—and when you’re done, it takes the bottle back, sanitizes it ...

A common type of machine for the vending of bottled drinks is the Cartesian-drive machine shown below. Here, a carriage for the drink bottles moves from a starting point on the lower left side of the ...