About ACPP
ACPP supplies plant-based cups, straws and wrapping paper to cafés, restaurants and offices across the United States. That part is ordinary. What isn’t ordinary in this category is a supplier who will tell you, in writing, exactly which claims they can back and which they can’t — because under U.S. rules the business that prints the claim carries the liability, not the factory that supplied the stock.
What we make
Everything is pressed or wound from plant fiber instead of petroleum plastic, and everything is built to break down in a commercial composting facility where one exists.
Hot and cold, 12 to 22 oz, with one 90 mm lid across the whole line — so your counter stocks a single lid instead of four.
See the cups →Three lengths and two diameters, firm from the first sip to the last. Individually wrapped, or bulk in kraft counter tubes.
See the straws →Grease-resistant printed sheets for burgers, sandwiches and pastries — the last thing your customer touches, and the cheapest media you own.
Custom print availableWhere we stand
We would rather lose an order than write a claim we can’t defend in front of a regulator.
If a supplier won’t name the disposal route, there isn’t one.
A certification is a document, not an adjective. Ask to see it before you print it on your cup.
What a thing is made of and where it ends up are two different promises. We make both, separately, in writing.
Full disclosure
Most suppliers in this category answer a question about certification with a paragraph about the planet. Here is ours as a table.
| Claim | Status | What that means for you |
|---|---|---|
| Made from plant fiber, not petroleum | Yes | A materials fact you can check against what we buy. We name the fiber before you order. |
| BPI Affiliate Member | Yes | A membership that supports BPI’s work on compostable packaging. It is not a product certification and we never present it as one. |
| Full material disclosure before you order | Yes | Fiber, barrier, adhesive and coating, named in writing. If you need it for a labelling review, ask. |
| Product-level compostability certification | Not yet | We do not hold one. Until we do, we say “built for commercial composting”, never “certified compostable”. |
| Independent PFAS lab testing | Not yet | We won’t quote a fluorine figure we haven’t paid a lab to measure. If that number matters to your buyer, tell us and we’ll discuss testing. |
Why it’s written this way
Under the FTC Green Guides, an unqualified “biodegradable” claim means the whole item returns to nature within a year of however it’s thrown away — and in a sealed landfill, no material does that reliably. The FTC has warned marketers over exactly this wording. When you buy from us you get language you can defend, plus a plain account of where our evidence stops. Right now that list is shorter than our competitors’. It is also true.
