Chicago businesses try to make sustainable shopping easier

Phil Shoemaker prepares boxes of food to sell on the app Too Good To Go at The Dill Pickle Food Co-op. Too Good To Go reduces food waste by giving stores and restaurants a way to sell leftovers or food near its sell-by date. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

Mollie Hughes used to struggle to shop for sustainable products.

She and Kathryn Decker, a classmate in an executive MBA program, were looking for products that were compostable or made in the United States. But it was often hard to figure out how a product was actually made.