An absorbent, pants-type article for personal wear about a wearer's waist, said article comprising: a liquid permeable inner surface for facing the wearer; an outer surface for facing away from the wearer; an absorbent body disposed therebetween; a front waist region, a back waist region and a crotch region extending longitudinally between and interconnecting the front and back waist regions (22,24), said front and back waist regions (22,24) being permanently attached to each other to define a wear configuration of the absorbent article having a waist opening, at least one leg opening spaced from the waist opening, and transversely opposite sides (34,134) each extending a length Lp from the waist opening to said at least one leg opening, the article being configurable from said wear configuration to a disposal configuration in which the article is generally compacted for disposal; and a disposal tab having an attachment region attached to one of said sides (34,134) of the article and extending a greatest length La along at least a portion of the length Lp of said side (34,134), and a tab region extending transversely outward from the attachment region a greatest distance Dt and being attachable to the article in the disposal configuration of the article, the greatest length La of the attachment region of the tab being substantially greater than the greatest distance Dt that the tab region extends transversely outward from the attachment region, the greatest length La of the attachment region being in the range of 35 percent to 100 percent of the length Lp of said side (34,134) of the article; wherein the tab region of the disposal tab comprises a fastener region configured for releasable attachment to the article in each of said wear configuration and said disposal configuration of the article. a liquid permeable inner surface for facing the wearer; an outer surface for facing away from the wearer; an absorbent body disposed therebetween; a front waist region, a back waist region and a crotch region extending longitudinally between and interconnecting the front and back waist regions (22,24), said front and back waist regions (22,24) being permanently attached to each other to define a wear configuration of the absorbent article having a waist opening, at least one leg opening spaced from the waist opening, and transversely opposite sides (34,134) each extending a length Lp from the waist opening to said at least one leg opening, the article being configurable from said wear configuration to a disposal configuration in which the article is generally compacted for disposal; and a disposal tab having an attachment region attached to one of said sides (34,134) of the article and extending a greatest length La along at least a portion of the length Lp of said side (34,134), and a tab region extending transversely outward from the attachment region a greatest distance Dt and being attachable to the article in the disposal configuration of the article, the greatest length La of the attachment region of the tab being substantially greater than the greatest distance Dt that the tab region extends transversely outward from the attachment region, the greatest length La of the attachment region being in the range of 35 percent to 100 percent of the length Lp of said side (34,134) of the article; wherein the tab region of the disposal tab comprises a fastener region configured for releasable attachment to the article in each of said wear configuration and said disposal configuration of the article.